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TIL that even though your chances of contracting HIV from a positive person via needle sharing is about 90% on average, depending on viral load, your chavces of contracting it from unprotected sex average less than 1%.

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aLPo TIL that India is only 109th in real population density, as such a high percentage of the land is arable. There is roughly the same amount of farmable land in India per Indian as there is in Germany for each German.
Lk9r9 [TIL] Frank Herbert felt that Star Wars was a ripoff of Dune and considered suing George Lucas
oBy7R TIL there's a fetish term and concept for people who are aroused by wearing clothing intended for their own gender (men wearing men's clothes, or women wearing women's clothing)
Kl7E TIL That Manteo Mitchell broke his fibula while running the 400m relay in the Olympics, but kept on running
kJog7 TIL: Danny Antonucci, creator of the universally-acclaimed "Ed, Edd & Eddy", had an earlier animated series on MTV, "The Brothers Grunt". It lasted only 7 months, and is considered to be one of the worst televisions shows ever made.