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

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jvyn TIL that the Black Death killed so many people in the 14th century that the world population did not recover to pre-plague levels until the 17th century.
4XAJo TIL Under France’s stringent privacy laws, parents can face penalties as severe as a year in prison and fines up to of €45,000 (£35,000) if convicted of publicizing intimate details of the private lives of their children without their consent.
Bge0L TIL about Ibn al-Haytham, a 10th-century scientist who changed how we understand the science of vision. He once pretended to be insane to escape execution and used his house arrest to write important works on optics.
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W7RmA TIL of the Zone of Death an area in the United States where one can legally get away with murder