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TIL that romantic kissing was only invented 3500 years ago, and its invention has been linked to the rapid spread of oral herpes.

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RO5w TIL Canada has sold hundreds of millions of tons of asbestos to developing and 3rd world countries with no regulations against the cancer causing substance with no warning, while knowing fully well the dangers of the product.
aOrL TIL Sheep breeders put chalk on the male sheep, which leaves a chalk mark on the females it’s mated with to monitor reproduction.
N7VP6 TIL that two brothers from a set of triplets fooled a Russian prison when one brother swapped places with the other to give him a brief taste of freedom. Rather than returning, the freed brother ran off with his brother's girlfriend. It took years for the authorities to realize they had been duped.
rNN14 TIL Harald Hirschsprung (describer of Hirschsprung's disease) helped establish a children's hospital named after Queen Louisa of Denmark in 1879. She wanted the walls decorated with Bible verses, but Hirschsprung insisted on pictures of animals. After this, the Queen declined to enter the hospital
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