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TIL one in five Georgian Londoners had syphilis by their mid-30s

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XEJvD TIL that China and Taiwan each have a Tsinghua University with the same motto and almost identical emblems. The China school was established in 1911. After the communist takeover, the president escaped to Taiwan and restablished the school in 1956.
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