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TIL no child has been poisoned by Halloween candy. Exception, one by a family member.

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YE7v TIL John Smith was a pirate, beheaded three Turks in jousting matches while fighting for the Holy Roman Army, and was enslaved in Russia until he escaped by killing his master. He did all this before he set sail for present day Virginia, United States.
vPjw8 TIL that Dave Coulier, the actor who played Joey Gladstone on “Full House,” has claimed to be the subject of Alanis Morissette’s hit song “You Oughta Know.” Bob Saget claimed to have been present at the dinner Alanis mentions in the song.
lolN TIL that even though your chances of contracting HIV from a positive person via needle sharing is about 90% on average, depending on viral load, your chavces of contracting it from unprotected sex average less than 1%.
KYAN4 TIL In the 1980s, DeCasper studied whether fetuses could hear mothers’ reading. In several months, infants were tested to choose recordings with different stories to listen to. Surprisingly, but most of children chose to listen to the stories that their mothers had read to them prenatally
oBlGR TIL Re:Scam.org, an AI email bot that will respond to phishing scammers realistically to waste their time and hopefully reduce the number of scams they can perform on others.