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TIL: HIV is no longer a death sentence, the life expectancy for a HIV positive person is almost equal to a HIV negative person.

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7rJxM TIL of Operation Wrath of God, or why Israeli Mossad agents are basically the badass spies we all thought only existed in movies. Motorcycle assassinations, silencers, car bombs, the works.
4nAo TIL that during WWII, the Gestapo’s most wanted person was New Zealand born Allied agent Nancy Wake. Among her numerous exploits, she killed an SS soldier with her bare hands, to prevent him from raising the alarm during an undercover raid.
e0D44 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”
neL6P TIL that Russia did not have to pay its WW1 debt because it became the Soviet Union
XEAdE TIL that all languages follow this law. The second most common word is used 1/2 as much as the most. The third word is used 1/3 the most, and so on and so on for all languages