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TIL the longest one-syllable word in English is squirreled

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lolN TIL that even though your chances of contracting HIV from a positive person via needle sharing is about 90% on average, depending on viral load, your chavces of contracting it from unprotected sex average less than 1%.
4XaAJ TIL that pineapples were name during after pinecones due to their spiky appearances
v1vL8 TIL in 1968 over 6,000 sheep died in Utah after a mishap at a chemical weapons test range some 50 miles away. A cannister aboard a spray plane malfunctioned, dispersing the gas to a height of 1,400 ft instead of the intended 150 ft.
PY48V TIL four American presidents were neither Democrat or Republican but "Whig", a third political party that collapsed around 1855.
JXY8 TIL the name of the TIME magazine stands for “The International Magazine of Events”