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TIL People with herpes have a numeric code that they can put on their profile on dating sites to allow potential partners with herpes search for them

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DQ5YY TIL Germans refer to cell phones as 'handys'
wL6Qo TIL Rickets is called "The English Disease" in some languages, after the thick smog during the industrial revolution in England gave up to 80% of children a vitamin-D deficiency
n8X9 TIL Michael Cera played the voice of “Brother Bear” in the children show “The Berenstain Bears.”
G4m1 TIL Monica Lewinsky couldn’t get a full-time job for 17 years after she left the Pentagon in 1997.
jNWlp TIL the Okinawa Islands were home to the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was culturally & politically distinct from Japan. Though its languages were related (though unintelligible to) Japanese, they were seen as a foreign people with a different culture, before it was annexed into Japan & mostly assimilated.