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

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v1el8 TIL that Andrew Jackson’s parrot cursed so loudly and for so long during the former president’s funeral that the wicked bird had to be removed from the service as shocked mourners watched.
8aYLK TIL that the most decorated regiment during WW2 were the Japanese Americans despite having their families locked up in concentration camps, fighting in major campaigns in Northern France, Italy, and Germany
PXXV TIL that physicians within the United States correctly diagnosed 55.3% of easier and 5.8% of more difficult cases
VBpZ4 TIL bed bugs can give off a "musty, sweet smell, often likened to berries," if there's a sizable infestation. The smell that bed bugs give off varies depending on your personal olfactory sense
5YxBk TIL the Abraham Lincoln Battalion was a group of American fighters in the Spanish Civil War, including a vaudeville acrobat, a rabbi, and the first African-American ever to lead white troops into battle.