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TIL at a minimum an estimated 11% of Adults aged 15 to 49 in South Africa have HIV/AIDS, with a high estimation of 23%.. approx. one in ten, to one in five people; respectively.

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LkR9P TIL: In the 16th century, the Pope declared the Capybara a fish, and it was allowed to be eaten during Lent.
xVja1 TIL I learned that there was a man who could eat so much that he was once expelled from a hospital under suspicion of eating an entire toddler.
neL19 TIL that Mike Tyson knocked out another kid for ripping the head off of a pigeon. Tyson had grown up with nothing & found that feeding and spending time with them was an honour & got him away from all the bullying he had endured. To this day he still loves & has his own collection of racing pigeons.
n7aW TIL that the 15 minute chimes on Big Ben have lyrics: All through this hour/Lord be my guide/And by Thy power/No foot shall slide
X0ZlQ TIL the SR-71 Blackbird used an Astro-inertial navigation system, a special camera pointed at the sky. Its "blue light" source star tracker could see stars day and night and “was good enough to limit drift to 1,000 ft (300 m) off the direction of travel at Mach 3.”