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Today I learned 50-80% of American adults have herpes

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Rb76 TIL that Christians were originally called Atheists by the Roman Empire because they didn’t believe in Polytheism.
4ax6 TIL PG&E diverted funds for gas line improvements to executive pay and bonuses. Shortly thereafter a section that would’ve been replaced blew up destroying 38 houses and killing 8 people.
jMXa TIL that in WW2 JFK swam 4 hours to safety while towing an injured crewman with his teeth after his ship was destroyed. (In the Greatest Display of Badassedry Section)
aP5y TIL that when bubbles are collapsed by sound waves it creates light and no one knows why. It’s called “Sonoluminescence”
e0EX4 TIL paisley is from Kashmir, the iconic red design was brought to Scotland from Turkey in 1758, George Washington owned one of the first modern bandanas, and women entering the workforce in WWII popularized them.