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TIL that in 2012 a researcher called Teresa Gonzalo created a vaginal gel that inhibits the transmission of HIV by 80%

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JWM8 TIL the oldest known advertisement dates from around 3000BC and was found in the ruins of Thebes. It was an ad for a slave named Shem.
p80e8 TIL in 2017, Russian man was convicted of murder after killing friend over AMD vs Nvidia argument
yQx6V TIL after Disneyland's success, NBC invited Walt Disney to build his 2nd theme park near Secaucus, New Jersey not far from NYC. Walt found out the NJ climate would not allow a year-round park, and Roy Disney suggested putting "some method of controlling the weather – a vast dome or some such thing."
9YQkp TIL the Manhattan Project scientists originally wanted to bomb Kyoto, but Secretary of War Henry Stimson successfully convinced the president that it would be needless culture vandalism, as he had toured the city on his honeymoon and knew it was not a military target.
0alR TIL In 1854, during the Crimean war, the British hospital in Constantinople was extremely unhygienic. Patients lay in their own excrement, and rodents and bugs scurried past them. More soldiers died of disease than injury. Florence Nightingale fixed this by getting patients to clean the hospital.