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TIL that 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV/AIDS because their CCR5-delta 32 has mutated preventing the virus from entering the cells of the immune system.

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ANppa TIL only three single-letter .com domain names were registered before Internet pioneer Jon Postel registered the other 23 letters of the alphabet. IANA now holds these in reserve to prevent single entities from controlling a letter of the alphabet.
RE8a TIL that Universal’s highest grossing production is actually the Broadway musical Wicked, which outgrossed even Jurassic World.
KoO4 TIL, There is something called NUKEMAP, You can nuke any place in the world and see the size and effect of the blast.
W5kd TIL that Christopher Walken was one of the last people to ever see Natalie Wood alive and hired a lawyer when the case surrounding her death was re-opened in 2011. Upon re-opening the case, as well as an additional subsequent re-opening of it in 2012, the police stated Walken was not a suspect.
m1J5R TIL about the town of Los Algodones, Mexico. Situated on the border with the United States, over 350 dentists populate the small town in order to provide affordable dental care to American visitors, leading to the nickname "Molar City".