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TIL that as much as 10% of people that are of Northern European decent are immune to HIV.

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awaay TIL The banana plant is a herb, distantly related to ginger. There are more than 1,000 types of bananas in the world.
081A TIL that an Indonesian toddler Aldi Rizal has quit the habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day but has now got addicted to junk food. He started smoking when he was just 18 months old.
WM7A TIL Dr. Dre’s son died of a heroin overdose in 2008
KYyV6 TIL over 98% of Korean households have a special kimchi fridge
m4jP TIL of Disney’s short lived introduction of self destructing DVDs.The discs worked perfectly for the two-day viewing window but when taken out of the package, exposure to oxygen turned the coating black and made the disc impenetrable by a DVD laser.