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TIL that people with HIV have a longer life expectancy than people with Diabetes.

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VQxp TIL that in order to preserve the state’s natural beauty, billboards are completely banned in the state of Vermont and have been for over 45 years.
OKne TIL there is a museum in Croatia named “Froggyland” which is entirely composed of over 500 stuffed Frogs in human positions.
Gap5 TIL that Mae Questel, the voice of Olive Oyl in the original Popeye cartoon, voiced Popeye himself in a few shorts where his voice actor, Jack Mercer, was unavailable
XjoE TIL the German government will lose copyright of Hitler’s infamous book “Mein Kampf” in 2016, which means they can no longer uphold their 70-year-old ban on it. Germany is already threatening to ban any educational rerelease of the book out of fear it will “advance” the Nazi ideology again.
0wlkv TIL the Island of Sri Lanka/Ceylon only became an island in 1480, when the narrow landbridge connecting the peninsula to the Indian Subcontinent was destroyed by a massive cyclone after years of gradual erosion.