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TIL that cold sores are a symptom of herpes, 90% of the world's adults have HSV-1 (Herpes Simplex Virus) that is closely related to the one that causes genital herpes HSV-2. Cold sores can be contagious even if no sores are visible.

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Z8bDQ TIL, Alice in Wonderland was once banned in China, "Bears, Lions and other beasts cannot use human language"said the governor of the Hunan province in 1931. "To attribute to them such a power is an insult to the human race"
gM1NX TIL there is a German man who was born in 1905 (when Germany was still ruled by Emperors), was 12 at the end of WWI, 40 at the end of WWII, 84 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, and is still alive at 113 years old.
ANgLg TIL that in 1933-34, with immense pressure on banks, the city of Detroit printed their own banknotes to allow employees to be paid, as well as utilities.
9wLwX TIL in 1973 a British couple survived 117 days lost at sea on an inflatable raft after their boat sank when it was struck by a whale. They survived by "almost continually" bailing water out of their raft, while collecting rainwater & killing turtles, birds and fish with their bare hands for food.
LQWeV TIL that there is an exposed breast on flag of the US state of Virginia. It was added to the flag in 1901 when the then secretary of the commonwealth of Virginia felt Virtus, the Roman goddess of virtue featured on the flag, who at the time wore a full breast plate, looked too manly.