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TIL that it is Texas state law to check a woman for STIs (HIV, Hepatitis B, and syphilis) three times during a pregnancy. First trimester, Third trimester and upon Delivery. What do they think I'm doing in my free time between conception and delivery?

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R75lw National Geographic Fellow Jer Thorp explains the process behind designing "We Were Once Strangers Too," an award-winning public data sculpture that highlighted the role of immigrants in New York City.
xkO5 TIL there is a hard version of Tic-Tac-Toe
mxeGp TIL there's a snail with an iron-plated foot
oRr8R TIL: Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, pioneered the field of public relations. Applying his uncle's ideas, Bernays convinced the public that bacon and eggs was the all-American breakfast and, using subliminal images of vaginas and venereal disease, that only disposable cups were sanitary.
6KwZ TIL of the aphorism Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness”.