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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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Bgrxy TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem
4Xk4X TIL that adults who are blind from birth gesture when they talk, and these gestures resemble the gestures of sighted adults speaking the same language.
9wv7Q TIL about John Wilkes, a British politician, who once lost an election even after bribing a ship's captain to take a load of opposition voters to Norway.
KGva TIL Strawberry Pop-Tarts increase in sales at WalMart, seven times their normal sales rate, ahead of a hurricane