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TIL that 1 out of 100 Germans is genetically immune to the HIV virus.

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RWa8 TIL in 2008 a Brazilian priest, as part of a fundraiser, strapped 1000 balloons to a lawn chair and sent himself up. Weeks later, he was found dead at sea, earning him a Darwin Award.
NXAP1 TIL the boom in mathematics during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Western world is correlated with the development of artillery and the increasing need for military professionals, especially artillerists, to be skilled in mathematics
XmbR TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once backed a bill to import Hippopotamuses into the U.S to produce meat to solve the American meat crisis in 1910. The American Hippo bill nearly passed, but fell one vote short.
KYDYB TIL that the sun loses 4.4 million tons of mass per second due to the light that it emits.
lowg5 TIL towards the end of WW2 Herman Goering had become so addicted to para-codeine that he was travelling with almost the entire world’s supply