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TIL Ponce de Leon was never searching for the Fountain of Youth. That story was written after his death to make him look like an idiot.

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e0wQk TIL: Charlie Sheen's revelation that he was HIV-positive sparked an increase in testing equivalent to 7 World AIDs Days.
5V0b9 TIL that the African continent is starting to split apart, and it will cause a new ocean to form where it splits.
Vv8Q TIL that there are dogs that work in courtrooms to comfort victims of abuse whilst testifying. They are called ‘comfort dogs’.
XExpr TIL about Roy Cleveland Sullivan also called Human lightning Rod ,a park ranger(at Virginia) who was hit by lightning SEVEN times and he survived ALL of them.The odds of getting hit by lightning is 1 out of 13,500.He commited suicide at the age of 71 by gunshot.
xnM7 TIL There’s an ecological push to eat more lionfish, the invasive species causes environmental havoc, and eating them could be the best way to control the threat.