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TIL that gay and bisexual men are only 2% of the U.S. population, but account for 63% of new HIV infections

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1vgX TIL The music used in the ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ anti-piracy advert is pirated
4X4Y6 TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”
8emdX TIL that in 1958, a U.S. Air Force bomber accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina. The bomb didn’t have its nuclear core installed, but when it hit the ground, its conventional explosives went off. The blast injured six people and damaged several buildings in the area.
DQw6e TIL James Longstreet’s (Confederate general and US Minister to the Ottoman Empire) second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, died in 1962 at the age of 99. They got married in 1897, he was 74 and she was 34. She was widowed in 1904, childless.
b9av9 TIL Paul McCartney replaced Ringo Starr as drummer for the studio recording of the Beatles' "Back in the USSR".