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

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0w9X1 TIL there's a light bulb that has been burning since 1901. Many like it still exist and can be found working. It has been cited as evidence for the existence of planned obsolescence in later-produced light bulbs. There is a livestream of it. Ironically, two cameras have already died while streaming.
9PmQ TIL there is an area in Canada with less gravity than the rest of the Earth
xOv5 TIL that soccer was called “soccer” in England from 1865 to the 1980’s. The only reason they exclusively use the term “football” today is because of its American connotations.
oano TIL a small part of the brain that controls sexual behavior is twice as large in men than in women, except for gay men. A human study found that in most gay men, this area is significantly smaller than in straight men. The same phenomenon has been found in homosexual rams.
0wKYR TIL legal scholars use the terms malum prohibitum and malum in se to distinguish between offences which are legally or morally forbidden. The former is wrong simply for rules prohibiting them whilst the latter is wrong as it is seen as an innately immoral act.