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TIL South Africa’s President testified that he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman because this would reduce his risk of being infected

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PYXGZ TIL that the sex of a sea turtle is determined by the temperature of the egg. Below 81.86°F the hatchling will be male, above 87.8°F the hatchling will be female
0dM8v TIL about Ocean Conservation Namibia which is a group of men who search daily for seals who have become entangled with fishing nets and other harmful things and rescue them. They would do the same for other animals but seals are the only ones they are able to get close enough to.
mxv1o TIL that Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian contains so much violence that it is considered "unfilmable" - a notion that McCarthy himself denies.
w987 TIL Raccoons are very agile tree climbers and do not mind climbing or falling from elevations as high as 40 feet (12 meters).Raccoons have bad eyesight and are color blind, but have great hearing and a great sense of smell.
X00d8 TIL French secret service agents bombed the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior in order to stop Greenpeace from disrupting underwater nuclear testing in 1985.