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TIL the USA is the drug overdose capital of the world by per capita population

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en8k TIL That Sesame Street South Africa has a Muppet who is HIV+ in order to teach kids the dangers and how to cope with the lost of family members to the STD
X0EaD TIL that the Guinness World Records title for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive is held by nonuplets from Mali. There are only two other recorded cases of nonuplets in the world ever, in Australia (1971) and in Malaysia (1999), which all the babies died.
eOJ4 TIL that in 1986, the United Way released 1.5 M balloons at once. It was responsible for shutting down and airport, causing environmental damage, and hindering a search and rescue operation.
AgPB TIL that the ‘Bridge of Sighs’ in Venice is named that because it was the last sight that convicts would see of Venice.
woXVY TIL A woman in Tamil Nadu, India Disguises Herself as Man for Three Decades to Raise her Daughter