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TIL that George W Bush’s AIDS prevention response in Southern Africa was actually a FAILURE, and the rate of new infections grew as a result of it.

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QN8kp TIL in Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig because they are social animals and need companionship.
YaPr TIL 20 year old Ryan Holle was sentenced to life without parole for lending his car to a friend, who then murdered an 18 year old girl.
GagE TIL a German graffiti artist painted a 250 square meter bridge to make it look like it was made out of Lego.
woPxo TIL the Stellar's sea cow, an extinct sea mammal like manatee, stretching 30 feet, had so much blubber it couldn't submerge itself entirely
YpJNd TIL that bilinguals experience tip-of-the-tongue moments twice as often as monolinguals. Processing two languages at the same time comes with a computational cost. Although, this kind of “multitasking” trains the brain.