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TIL 1 out of 6 people have genital herpes.

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vQaR TIL Despite the loss of her legs, Li Juhong has been a doctor in her Chinese village since 2001. She uses wooden stools to travel around, has treated over 6,000 people and has a stay-at-home husband who carries her on his back so she can reach patients who live in isolated areas.
dDKYZ TIL a lady who was convicted of kidnapping a child had to experience being executed by firing squad twice. Between the two shootings a strangulation was attempted. Later, it was discovered that she'd been born with her heart on the right side of her chest instead of the left
KObNa TIL about the “Rule of Thirds,” which is a technique used in film and photography that divides the frame into a 3x3 grid, and focuses elements of the frame at the intersecting points on the grid, where our eyes find them most pleasing, and makes the image more comfortable to look at.
rNGGW TIL that it’s a myth that the Golden Gate Bridge is painted from end-to-end each year or several years. The Bridge undergoes only ongoing touch up painting, and not complete repainting the moment it’s done.
Z84NR TIL: In Japan, yonige-ya, "run away at night" or “fly-by-night”, companies service people who want to become johatsu, “evaporated people”, who are people who want to disappear and never be found.