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TIL that 10+ sexual partners in a lifetime heights cancer risk in men by 70% and in women by 91%

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8aXNL TIL that a Soviet teenager Zinaida Portnova killed over 100 Nazis by poisoning them, Betrayed and captured, she is said to have shot the Nazi detective who captured her.
6OQW TIL A U.S. FDA study showed 90% of more than 100 drugs, prescription and over-the-counter, “were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.” The U.S. military saved $260 million in five years by not discarding expired drugs.
XXND TIL During the Black Death, incoming ships were forced to wait for 40 days to prevent possible infection. The Italian word for 40, “quaranta”, is where we get the word “quarantine”.
LkWeP TIL of a Jewish ballerina, Franceska Mann, who while stripping to go into the gas chambers, shot a German officer and wounded another.
gM5BW TIL that square academic caps are called mortarboards, because it looks similar to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar