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TIL 50-80% of the population has herpes

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LkWmQ TIL that Stephen Fry, renowned UK commentator and comedian, purchased a London cab so that he could use bus and taxi lanes to efficiently drive around London
J1JMV TIL a 20 year old man ended his life after thinking he lost $750,000 on an options bet on the stock trading app Robinhood.
v14Gx TIL Jeff Bezos is building a 10,000 Year Clock inside a remote mountain in West Texas an icon for long-term thinking. It ticks once a year, the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium, and will keep time for the next 10,000 years.
gMQbL TIL After bragging to fellow insurgents about shooting down a Chinook with an RPG which killed 38 US and Afghan army personnel, US intelligence traced and tracked the individual before dropping four 500lb bombs on his truck and following up with attacks by a C-130 gunship and Apache helicopters
GA1Wj TIL that there is a continuous line of doctoral advisor-advisee relationships going back from the present to the 1200s to a scholar named Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn Yūnus. He has more than 190,000 known academic "descendants", including Leonardo da Vinci and mathematicians Fourier, Lagrange, and Hilbert.