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TIL Europeans who are descended from survivors of the Black Death and smallpox can have an immunity to HIV/AIDS.

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9kB6 TIL that if you fail your driver’s license practical test three times in Switzerland, you have to visit a Psychologist to explain why you failed it.
0wLby TIL experts believe that the elephants that live in Sri Lanka are the progeny of elephants that swam across from Southern India across the sea in search of food and water.
A4x4 TIL: Edgar Allen Poe’s character Richard Parker who is eaten in a shipwreck in his 1838 book. In 1884 an English ship sinks and the name of the boy who is eaten is Richard Parker.
0QPR TIL: David Copperfield has so far sold 40 million tickets and grossed over $4 billion, which is more than any other solo entertainer in history
loWoA TIL: Charlie Chaplin was never an American citizen and was essentially exiled. During the McCarthy era, the FBI put him under surveillance, and a Mississippi congressman called for his deportation. The U.S. government then revoked his re-entry permit in 1952 as he traveled to England on vacation.