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TIL more than 20% (one in five) of adults in South Africa have HIV, which is an estimated 7.7 million people.

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ADLZd TIL in 2015, a metal detectorist in England found a large hoard of coins dating back to 879AD, depicting both the King of the Anglo-Saxons and the King of the Vikings on the same coin, suggesting a previously unknown alliance
697xm TIL that Quintus Servilius Caepio was a Roman statesman and general during the Roman Republic. Who after causing the Romans to lose the Battle of Arausio tried to blame Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, before stealing a vast amount of gold and silver from the Roman treasury, known as the "Gold of Tolosa."
Real TIL in 2012 Nina Turner introduced a men’s health bill that mirrored mostly male-sponsored legislation restricting women’s reproductive health. It called for a written affidavit by a recent sexual partner, consulting a sex therapist, and a cardiac stress test to receive ED meds.
4Xdnw TIL most species of bee are solitary and don't live in hives or colonies, instead nesting in the ground, aerially, or even in old snail shells
orDR TIL This year, a gas cloud is going to come too close to a Black Hole in the center of our galaxy and we’ll see it get ripped apart.