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TIL 48 percent of black women have herpes.

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Y7KLA TIL 1930s era bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd destroyed mortgage papers during his heists, freeing hundreds of farmers from their property debt and potential foreclosure
xEG5 TIL two Bangladeshi newspapers published an article using the Onion as a source. “We didn’t know the Onion was not a real news site.”
Bg4Qk TIL Bailey's Irish Cream was invented by an Englishman and a South African (who happened to also develop the brand KerryGold)
69lRZ TIL that in 2009, a suicidal man survived going over Niagara Falls. A local helicopter tour pilot attempted to rescue the man by lowering his helicopter enough that the man could grasp the skids, but the man refused. Eventually, the pilot used the rotor wash to push the man to shore.
ZpyEp TIL about Raniero Cantalamessa, a friar and cardinal who in his office as Preacher to the Papal Household, is the only person allowed to preach to the Pope