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TIL, in girls 14-19, HPV rates have plummeted by 56% since the vaccine was introduced

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JYXe1 TIL The concept of setting the clocks ahead in the spring in order to make better use of natural daylight was first introduced by US inventor Benjamin Franklin in 1784.
e4Qk TIL The Blues Brothers movie was not available in predominately white neighborhoods, for Mann Theaters. They didn’t think the movie would be successful with white audiences.
REJ4 TIL Glitter can cause blindness.
VM51m TIL In 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon became the first female State Senator elected in the United States after defeating her own polygamist husband, Angus M. Cannon, who was also on the ballot.
neMkB TIL that some skeletons found of now extinct species of sloth suggest some varieties used to be as large as elephants. The Megatherium being one of them.