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TIL: Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name from a Monty Python sketch

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gMVJ9 TIL Genital Herpes (HSV2) dates back millions of years. Scientists found that early ancestors (Homo Erectus) most likely contracted it from another early hominin (Parathropus Boisei). Probably likely through scavenging ancestral chimp meat.
rRdod TIL when "Battlefield Earth" won the Razzie Award for Worst Movie of the Decade, screenwriter J.D. Shapiro accepted in person saying: "No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those."
oBMP7 TIL The first female prisoner to be force fed was fighting for birth control
5VXPB TIL that the American/Canadian cities called "Carlsbad" were named for the presence of mineral water springs, honoring the Bohemian spa city Karlovy Vary, or Karlsbad in German.
wPLE TIL there is a Train station in Sweden that uses people’s body heat to warm adjacent buildings