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TIL: More than half a million people in central China are believed to have become infected with HIV from selling their blood to local government-run blood banks in the mid and late 1990s.

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J1OgQ TIL There are 7 films in the Bring it On movie series and the most recent one, released in 2022, is a slasher film
aBL9 TIL A Spanish judge has ruled that women can be charged more for driving lessons because “men were better drivers”
a56J TIL that it is a very common misconception that the poinsettia is poisonous. The rumor started when a 3yo’s death was falsely blamed on poinsettia, and it has been passed on that poinsettias are poisonous for about 100 years.
XEm96 TIL that HARKing (hypothesizing after the results are known) is the practice by researchers of looking through the data to find interesting results and then constructing a research question and hypothesis and presenting them as if the hypothesis came before the findings.
yVZMa TIL: On the first British Embassy to China in 1793, the Chinese spoke fluent Latin to the ambassadors because the last time the Chinese interacted with Europe was during Roman times