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TIL Black Women account for 72% of all new HIV cases

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VB1yZ TIL about the Frankish Tower on the Acropolis of Athens, built in Medieval Greece and demolished by Heinrich Schliemann, the German national who later found (and badly damaged) the Site of Troy, who wanted any post-Classical buildings "cleaned-up" from the Acropolis
GAvME TIL one can live in Zu Zu, Tennessee, north of Yum Yum, and west of Dancyville .
BmWx [TIL] The term “Regressive Left” was coined by Maajid Nawaz, to describe the set of liberals who tolerate illiberal principles like racism and homophobia, so long as it is a minority group that espouses those principles
5Y6wB TIL about Sergei Avdeyev, a Russian astronaut who holds the record for time travelling the longest, after spending 747 days in space, he has travelled 0.02 seconds into his own past due to time dilation.
LkxKp TIL in 1995 McDonald's sued a topless sandwich shop in Melbourne, Australia called "McTits" to get them to change their name.