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TIL that Nearly Half of All Black Women Have Genital Herpes

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R7EKj TIL that up until the mid twentieth century in China, coins produced during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127CE) were unofficially used as currency.
WkRdA TIL that there is a replica of ark of covenant in Ethiopia at Saint George in Lalibela.
4XGd5 TIL that when Hurricane Ivan was in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004, pressure sensors on the ocean floor detected a freak wave 91 feet tall. Computer simulations suggested that at the storm's peak as a Category 5 it was producing waves over 130 feet high.
69Nm7 TIL The National City Bank Of New York Convinced The US Government to Invade Haiti in 1909
rNeB1 TIL That 'Animal House' was able to film at the University of Oregon largely because the University's President had previously refused to allow 'The Graduate' to film there due to "lack of artistic merit".