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TIL 50-80% of the population has herpes

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WkddY TIL as well as being the largest mammals, blue whales are also the loudest, producing low-frequency "pulses" that can be heard from more than 500 miles away.
PBKO TIL that in Fallout: New Vegas, different characters will pronounce “Caesar” differently, depending on rank and respect for the character; while the average NPC pronounces it “See-Zur,” Legionaires will pronounce it “Kai-Sarr,” the traditional Latin pronunciation.
pX1G TIL microbiologist Raul Cano, successfully revived yeast that had been stuck in amber for 25 million years. He then co-founded a brewery that uses the same 45 million-year-old species of yeast to brew beer.
eV9g TIL After the first Hiroshima atomic bombing in Japan, one Hiroshima policeman went to Nagasaki to teach police about ducking after the atomic flash. As a result of this timely warning, not a single Nagasaki policeman died in Nagasaki’s atomic blast.
dXJE TIL a greetings card that can play ‘Happy Birthday’ has more computing power than existed in the whole world in the 1950s.