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TIL African Americans comprise 14% of the US population but account for 44% of all new HIV infections.

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R7Zb6 TIL that a dispute between Serbia and Kosovo back in 2018 over electricity caused numerous digital clocks across Europe to lose a minute of time.
BvKx TIL during WW2, German soldiers disguised themselves as Americans in order to cause confusion among Allied troops. The paranoia was so great that at one point British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had the tires of his car shot out, was dragged out of the car, and was detained in a barn for hours.
v1O4j TIL Nicolas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her. Arquette thought it was strange but played along by creating a list of things to fulfill to win her. As he worked through the list, she got scared and avoided him. Strangely, they met again years later and eventually married.
LQYJP TIL that 1985 Steve Jobs hid his Porsche 911 to secure $20M funding from Ross Perot for his new computer company
pYMJZ TIL New York City used eminent domain to tear down a landlord's building but accidentally left his family with a small triangle of land. The city asked the family to donate the land, but the family instead made a small plaque to commemorate the tiny chunk of land they still owned, the Hess Triangle.