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TIL: South African prison gangs use HIV infection as punishment, ordering gang members carrying the AIDS virus to rape disobedient inmates in a ritual known as “slow puncture”.

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OGEwe TIL about Gullah language - a English Creole spoken by the African American Gullah people with 300 fluent native speakers and 5000 semi-fluent speakers.
9Yaom TIL, that first person to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation was actually a girl: Ada Lovelace. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
5mYB TIL Sony sold 12 million floppy disks.. in 2009
16MbO TIL in a Florida ceremony honoring James Earl Jones on MLK Day in 2002, the plaque honoring the actor bore the assassin's name — James Earl Ray — thanking him for "keeping the dream alive"
grO5X TIL the person who has spent the most time on television screens is Carol Hersee. She was the subject of the BBC's test cards between 1967 and 1998. She spent an estimated 70,000 hours on the screen, or about 8 continuous years.