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TIL Black Women account for 72% of all new HIV cases

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1ar6r TIL that before casting John Travolta as Vincent Vega in "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino invited him to his apartment (which was the same exact apartment Travolta lived in when he first got his start) to play a vintage "Welcome Back Kotter" board game.
m1d9y TIL on January 5, 1941, 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappeared after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead. Her body was never found.
9R4p TIL people in Japan aged between 40-74 by law have their waist lines measured, if they are found to be over weight their companies and local government can be fined.
Zp7jv TIL that during WWII, the Maharaja of Nawanagar rehabilitated approximately 600 Poles, the most of whom were orphaned children and women. The majority of the countries refused entry to the ship carrying them, including the then-British Governor of Bombay.
0dmpp TIL that chimpanzees also wage wars. The Gombe Chimpanzee War pitted two groups against each other for four years.