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TIL there is a new drug called PreP which HIV neg people can take so they can “safely” have unprotected sex with HIV pos people and it reduces the risk of becoming infected by 90%.

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4XlJX TIL Dr Watson ejaculates 11 times throughout the Sherlock Holmes stories. Ejaculate being used to mean exclaimed - '“Thank God!” I ejaculated from my very heart.'
d85LE TIL In 1969 Mister Rogers' and Officer Clemmons of "Mister Rogers' neighborhood" shared a pool in episode 1065 . This marked the first time in TV history an African American was portrayed swimming with a White. Clemmons hoped "the world would change" after the airing of the episode
Ypjwr TIL Galileo was the first to confirm the Moon's rough and uneven surface using a specially-engineered telescope and the first to find sunspots. Both findings, in addition to his observation of Jupiter's moons revolving the planet, helped disprove Aristotle's theory of a geocentric universe.
DQJyY TIL that Hasekura Tsunenaga was, in all likelihood, the first Japanese to cross the Atlantic. He set sail from Tsukinoura, travelled overland through Mexico, then sailed to Europe, where he visited Spain, popped briefly to France, and travelled to Rome for an audience with the Pope in 1615.
l7O9r TIL in 2005, Sothebys & Christies had to play Rock-Paper-Scissors over an art collection. Sothebys assumed it was random chance, so had no strategy. But Christies studied the game & asked two 11yo twin girls, who picked scissors: “Rock is way too obvious, and scissors beats paper.” Christies won.