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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

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kJWAd TIL the folk legend adapted into a play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was loosely based on a real alchemist/magician Johann Georg Faust
ALpa TIL In 2006, a Sudanese man was caught having sex with a goat, and as a punishment was forced to take the goat as his “wife” while paying a dowry of around $50 to its owner.
Y7ypr TIL that the power to punish pirates is explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution
0dM7j TIL I learned that in 2018 Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, ran an ad campaign branding itself as the "G-Spot of Europe" accompanied by the slogan "Nobody knows where it is, but when you get there - it's amazing."
15OV TIL in Germany the name of a child must indicate the gender of the child and not negatively affect the well being of the child.