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TIL half of all sexually active people will contract an STI by age 25.

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RkVl TIL Fox gave George Lucas full merchandising rights for the original trilogy rather than raise his salary because they didn’t expect Star Wars to be successful.
a868N TIL the only in-flight structural breakup of an airliner to ever be caused by air turbulence alone was a case of a plane flying directly through a tornado
JZkB TIL that Steve McQueen staged a car crash and faked a whiplash injury so that he could film The Magnificent Seven while “recuperating”
ZPDa TIL that Garth Brooks is one of the last hold out big-name musicians refusing to put his music on iTunes because he disagrees with Apple’s approach to selling music. He will only make his back catalog of hits and his new music available for download on his own website.
yxdM TIL that great white sharks are able to detect electromagnetic fields emitted by movement of animals, they are so sensitive that they can detect variations up to a billionth of a volt. At close range this allows them to hear heartbeats.