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TIL of a recently discovered aggressive strain of HIV that progresses to AIDS in 3 years

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Wg8L TIL that ISIS bans use of tobacco, alcohol, music, showing skin of women (& mannequins), yet willfully condone the rape of non-Muslim captive women and torture/execution of non-believers.
kOp7 TIL Mr. Burns answers the phone using the phrase “ahoy hoy”. This was Alexander Graham Bell’s original intended greeting when answering the phone.
W7pJN TIL: Norway has no south to north road connection. If the Storjord-Ballangen ferry is stopped, the shortest alternate route is a 1000km, 13 hour journey through Sweden
xVOLk TIL that the electric car FOMM ONE is designed to float on water in the event of floods and tsunamis.
e0ken TIL of the 'Ill Week' - a kind of late medieval version of the Purge. When Elizabeth I died there was a popular belief that the laws of a kingdom were suspended between the death of a sovereign and the proclamation of the successor.