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TIL: 10% of Europeans are immune to the HIV virus.

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5VlXR TIL about the story of Phyllis (Alexander's wife) and Aristotle (Alexander's tutor). Phyllis allegedly seduced Aristotle, forced him to kneel on the ground and rode on him while whipping and verbally degrading him.
9w5a6 TIL: In Native American mythology there is a Deer Woman, a beautiful woman with deer feet and other features. She lures men to their deaths. However, the Lakota say that if you sleep with her as a man, you go insane, while women get sexual and artistic powers .
VMM6Z TIL that the words celadon, gargantuan, and malapropism, as well as many others are actually characters from stories that later entered common language.
RW9 TIL Sugar cures the hiccups 19 out of 20 cases
b6mk9 TIL pants are always plural because it’s a “plural tantum” which is Latin for “plural only,”