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TIL:A herpes vaccine could be just around the corner. It has just passed it’s first human trials with good results!

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1E4W TIL a sheepdog named Pero who was sold to a sheep farmer in Cumbria, escaped and made 240-mile solo journey back to its birthplace of Ceredigion to reunite with his original owner.
kJ91B TIL Gerry Rafferty (Stealers Wheels) and Billy Connolly (famous British Comedian) had a band called The Humblebums
e0JD4 TIL The US is the global epicenter of tornado formation with an average of 1,200 each year. It’s the result of a unique geography that allows hot, dry air from the Southwest to flow atop moist, warm, unstable surface air east of the Rockies, with cold air at the jet-stream level overtopping it all
P1jAw TIL that most smoke detectors contain a small amount of Americium-241, a radioactive material that can undergo nuclear fission.
KOlDQ TIL The Romans believed that the vein in the ring finger on the left hand ran directly to one's heart, that they called the vein of love. To solidify a union based on love, they'd place the ring on that finger that housed the vein of love to signify the romance the newly married couple shares.