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TIL: Charlie Sheen's revelation that he was HIV-positive sparked an increase in testing equivalent to 7 World AIDs Days.

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W7doo TIL about 'deferred prosecution agreements.' Once a way for low-level drug offenders to avoid incarceration by accepting probation, corporations now negotiating DPAs to escape criminal conviction by paying a fine.
KORDB TIL the lifespan of the Hindu deity Brahma is believed to last 311.04 trillion years
xV4QD TIL that in an attempt to resist the reintroduction slavery by napoleon. In Guadeloupe, after finding out that he wont win the battle he and hundreds of his followers blew themselves up by igniting there gunpowder stores, killing many French troops in the process.
wLGAM TIL ancient Egyptians didn't use Hieroglyphics as an everyday writing system. They reserved this for special functions. The Egyptians used two script-like writing systems called Hieratic and Demotic. This eventually became Coptic script.
xZDD TIL of the Nirvana fallacy. It is the belief that, because something is not completely perfect, it is deeply flawed or even broken. It is very common in economic and political discourse.