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

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xVRAB TIL the name of the Mexican state of Michoacán derives from both indigenous languages of Nahuatl and Purépecha meaning "place of fisherman" and "place next to the water," respectively.
P1YVE TIL about the Royal Grand Knockout Tournament 1987 which featured several members of the British royal family (Prince Edward, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson) and celebrities (Meat Loaf, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, John Travolta) competing on a special It’s a Knockout course.
16Gl8 TIL that Roly-Polys or Pill Bugs are terrestrial crustaceans and are more closely related to lobsters, crabs, and shrimps
WkB04 TIL about a group of thieves who stole left shoes from display cases in designer shoe showrooms in Sweden, only to steal the paired right shoes from display cases in the showrooms in Denmark, making huge profits.
eMNJ TIL Humans have the ability to see ultraviolet (UV) light, but it is filtered by the eye’s lens. People who have surgery to remove the lens (typically because of cataracts) can see UV light.