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TIL: The CDC recommends that Ebola survivors should use condoms indefinitely.

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R7Jk4 TIL of William Buckley (1780 – 30 January 1856). He was an English convict who was transported to an Australian prison camp, escaped within 2 months, and lived in an Aboriginal community for 32 years.
KYK7E TIL about Eipmaco Amancio, a 98-year-old from Dalaguete, Cebu. Decades ago, he planted a pine tree that saved 32 passengers in August 2010. A bus lost control but was stopped by his tree, preventing it from plunging into a 500-foot ravine that may have caused major disaster and casualties.
e0KRk TIL that the largest living organism is a honey fungus measuring 2.4 miles (3.8 km) across in the Blue Mountains in Oregon
4kR8o TIL In Catholicism, the sin of gluttony can simply involve being too demanding about how your food looks and tastes.
wLxl1 TIL that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offers $100,000 grants to people trying to make better condoms.