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TIL: Condoms are NOT effective against HPV or Herpes

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ZpakR TIL the ex-husband of Susan Kuhnhausen had hired a hitman to kill her while she was home alone. She beat him with the hammer the hitman attempted to use, then she strangled him to death and she survived with only bruises and scratches. "He tried to kill me, so I killed him."
GA4pQ TIL Marine Duane Dewey was being treated by a navy corpsman in Korea after a grenade exploded at his feet, when another grenade landed near them. Dewey immediately smothered it shouting "Doc, I got it in my hip pocket!" Dewey survived & won the Medal of Honor for saving the corpsman's life & others.
b60l9 TIL that, even 35 years after the disaster, Chernobyl will be habitable again in about 20,000 years. Visiting is now considered safe, but there are still risks associated with touring due to the structural instability of the ruins.
x4dD TIL a 4chan prank resulted in VH1’s Save the Music program donating $10,000 to buy musical instruments for Boston’s Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
OkmR TIL 16% of the world’s population, 1.1 billion are atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion