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

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ZgOD TIL all 204 bridges on Long Island were purposely designed to be too low to allow buses through, thereby keeping blacks and other minorities dependent on public transportation off the beaches
0waaR TIL that the first surgery was practiced around 3000BC and it was called trephining. It involved putting a hole in someone’s head, and some theorize that is was used to rid the body of evil spirits. This surgery was in use through Medieval times and the renaissance.
LkekZ TIL that Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have all made separate special guest voice appearances, as themselves, in episodes of The Simpsons. Of the "Fab Four", the only Beatle to never make an appearance is John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980, nine years before the show started.
X0LwQ TIL during making of the first Hitman game, developers of Danish video game company IO Interactive kept Agent 47 bald because it was too difficult for them to do hair on the main character back then.
OGZx1 TIL the Chinese developed a psychoactive narcotic consisting entirely of a mixture of inorganic minerals in about 200 CE. It was widely popular for about 800 years before being condemned and the recipe subsequently forgotten. This makes it the only fun reactional drug permanently lost to time.