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TIL in 1988, Cosmopolitan released an article saying that women should not worry about contracting HIV from infected men and that “most heterosexuals are not at risk”, claiming it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.

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00yv TIL Ray Bradbury attributed his habit of daily writing to an encounter as a child with a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, who touched Bradbury on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, “Live forever!” Bradbury wrote every single day of his life thereafter.
vPVK8 TIL that after a farm accident the dying farmer scratched his last will and testament onto a tractor fender, the tractor he was pinned under, and that fender was removed and submitted to the courts and ultimately found to be a valid will.
RGG8 TIL in Japan, you are required to display a sticker on your car for one year after getting your licence to alert other drivers of your low levels of driving experience.
R5VX7 TIL The colour of an eggshell is determined by the colour of the hens ear lobe. It is nothing to do with diet.
jNDKN TIL that blue jays are in the Corvid family and are closely related to crows and ravens