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TIL that one out of six people in the United States has genital herpes. Almost 90% of them - that's more than 48 million Americans - don’t know they have it.

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awN5A TIL: Your ring to digit finger ratio has been studied as correlated with your testosterone / estrogen exposure at birth and various other skills, personality traits, cognitive abilities, academic performance, and behavior.
l7Ey5 TIL of ant-fungus mutualism. Leafcutter ants cut leaves and transport them back to their nests, where the leaves are used to cultivate fungus which is used as a food crop. In some advanced genera the queen ant may take a pellet of the fungus with her when she leaves to start a new colony.
ZwyQ TIL that the Rhinoceros Party was a registered party in Canada led by Cornelius, a rhinoceros, and promised to repeal the law of gravity and change Canada’s currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.
ed5g TIL Some women - and ONLY women - are born with four color receptor cells in their eyes and can see 100 million colors. Men can NEVER have that ability. A typical human has three color receptors and can see only one million colors.
mxL5x TIL the origin of ‘Mouth Breather’ and ‘Slack Jawed Yokel’ is a dental condition called Lip Incompetance. People have a very hard time keeping their lips together.