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

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EnK0 TIL Daft Punk named their band after a negative review that dubbed their music as “a bunch of daft punk.”
QJWdX TIL In 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single.
D1evD TIL to combat the spread of smallpox during the Civil War, soldiers would find someone with cowpox, cut open their pustules, and infect themselves with it. The less harmful cowpox made them immune to smallpox, but they sometimes confused cowpox with syphilis and gave themselves an STD instead.
y8Je TIL Quentin Tarantino has more than 6000 € late fees at a german video library, for 2 movies he rented during the shoot of Inglourious Basterds in Berlin 5 years ago.
MndK TIL that, due to California banning civilian ownership of .50 BMG rifles, Barret will not sell or service to any of California’s law enforcement agencies.