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TIL in 1988, Cosmo magazine told its female readers that having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man is totally safe as long as they did the missionary position.

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ANPVl TIL for movie The Reader (2008), the filming of the movie had to be delayed for 2 years so that actor David Kross had turned 18 in order to shoot sex scenes with Kate Winslet.
e05oD TIL that Richard Nixon was indirectly involved in the creation of professional women's tennis. After he banned cigarette ads from radio and television in 1970, Virginia Slims needed another way to reach young women smokers so they helped create and sponsor the first women-only tennis tournaments.
v1754 TIL The actor who used to play Gaston at Disney World killed himself accidentally by attempting to shoot fireworks off of his head.
8yOP TIL Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, realized his success as a high school dropout might convince teenagers to quit school - so in 1993 he went back to school and got his GED.
b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.