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TIL there’s been a drug for over a decade called Truvada that may be up to 99 percent effective at reducing the risk of HIV infection

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b6kMj TIL the Easter Whip tradition in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and parts of Hungary involves splashing girls with water and spanking them with decorated willow branches on Easter Monday. This is believed to ensure their health, beauty, and fertility for the next year.
rNb1 TIL Bill Nye’s TV career began on a local Seattle sketch comedy show named Almost Live. He was an engineer at Boeing at the time.
6nbw TIL a high-school student sued his school district after they suspended him for three days for giving an innuendo-laden speech at a school assembly. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
aWbb TIL the man that founded the Backstreet Boys is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for perpetrating one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history, cheating investors out of $300 million.
Y7BvP TIL Slow Loris’ have a venomous bite that causes necrosis (flesh rotting)