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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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Y71rx TIL Dodie Smith author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians and many other books only died in 1990 aged 94
OGn04 TIL that in ancient Lydia, it was common practice for most young commoner women to become prostitutes to raise enough money for a marriage dowry
PYYRV TIL that police in Kenya are ranked the worst in the world.
loGBa TIL Annually around 40 million Olive Ridley hatchlings are born in Odisha coast of India and they are monitored around the year from adults laying eggs to birth. Fishing and commercial activities are banned around particular coast. One of the most successful conservation story.
YpvyW TIL in the 1940's the American Government infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis to study the effects of penicillin without their knowledge