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TIL the FDA approved a medication that prevent HIV/AIDS in 2012… that has a 92% success rate.

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xlg1 TIL that cops touch the back of your vehicle to make sure the trunk isn’t open, and to leave their fingerprints on your vehicle in case they are taken hostage/murdered
GYr9E TIL that in 2008, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, refused to give his assent to a euthanasia bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies. In response, the Chamber amended the constitution so that bills no longer require the Duke's assent, rendering the Duke symbolic.
ADkyw TIL the average time between a girl's first period and when she got married was 5 years in the 19th century, but in the 21st it has grown to 15 years.
P1eMG TIL that one of the major factors that made Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, as the choice for piloting Vostok 6 in June 1963, was that she proved lucky in the timing of her menstrual cycles earlier that month.
4XRMw TIL that as of 2018 most of the early cryonics companies that froze dead bodies for future revival had gone out of business, and their stored corpses have been thawed and disposed of.