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TIL Transgender women are 49 times more likely to have HIV than the general population

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oByyL TIL when Jesse Owens broke the world record in the 200m dash in 1936, the second place runner—Mack Robinson, brother of baseball legend Jackie Robinson—also broke the previous world record. He worked as a middle school janitor the rest of his life afterward.
VMwbm TIL Arctic foxes don't start shivering until -94 °F / -70 °C
nPGB TIL that media sensationalizes the 24-48 hour waiting period to report a missing person. In real life this doesn’t exist and the missing person can be reported immediately.
kOA8W TIL Chimpanzees have entered their own Stone Age: they have been using stone tools for generations.
OG4AR TIL that it wasn’t just Smallpox that was unintentionally introduced to the Americas, but also bubonic plague, measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, cholera, diphtheria, typhus, malaria, leprosy, and yellow fever. Indigenous Americans had no immunity to any of these diseases.