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TIL 48 percent of black women have herpes.
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TIL about the Battle of Hayes Pond, an armed confrontation between Lumbee Native Americans and the KKK in which the Lumbee were successful in disrupting the klan rally and ending significant KKK activity in the southern region of North Carolina.
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TIL from my daughter that gas pump payments are not just automatic transactions enabled by the user like an ATM machine, but an event where the clerk inside the store is alerted and must actually confirm your card is authorized before allowing you to pump your gas.
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TIL Lord Tennyson wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" honoring soldiers that fought in the Crimean War. 37 years later Rudyard Kipling wrote "The Last of the Light Brigade" about the hardships faced by the veterans. Kipling hoped to shame the public into offering financial assistance.
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TIL nearly a quarter of your bones are in your feet.
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TIL Despite Kermit the Frog often being credited as the iconic Muppet, Rowlf was actually the first known Muppet "star" as a recurring character on The Jimmy Dean Show, first appearing in a telecast on September 26, 1963.