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TIL that genital herpes was not generally stigmatised until the 1970s, but stories about the stigma being due to advertising campaigns for antiviral drugs are thought to be untrue

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GYyPG TIL that During the 1990s, Raul Cano, a microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, revived yeast trapped in amber for 25 million years. Cano went on to found a brewery and crafted an "amber ale" with a 45-million-year-old variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
94Dm TIL the vibrator was “the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.”
Y7OQW TIL the USA is the third-most populous country in the world
9wlQm TIL when President Charles De Gaulle visited Harold McMillan at his home in Birch Grove in 1961, the French Secret Service put a special fridge in the coach house filled with De Gaulle's blood in case of an assassination attempt. A Daily Mail reporter was also bitten on his behind by a police dog.
QN9De TIL A pregnant woman, can get pregnant again, while she is pregnant... That It is possible for a human female to be carrying a baby and release another egg , that can be fertilized independently, resulting in two differently aged fetuses in her womb.