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TIL cold sores can be spread to the genitals causing genital herpes, and up to 50% of new genital herpes cases are caused by oral sex from a partner that has cold sores.

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oRlZA TIL a number of people, including a group of Swedish researchers, tried to replicate the experiment shown in the documentary Super Size Me(2004). None of them were able to get the same results as the documentary creator.
ADggl TIL that fish and chips is historically so important to the UK that in WWI, the British government made safeguarding supplies of them a priority and during WWII, Churchill refused to ration the dish.
9wrR6 TIL that while Florida accounts for 9% of America’s insurance claims, it accounts for 79% of the nation’s home insurance lawsuits.
XEQoj TIL Medical grade is nothing more than a marketing trick, which just means Inert
6E7V8 TIL that Andrew Carnegie, starting in the late 1800s, funded the construction of almost 1700 public libraries across the country, and over 800 abroad, for any town that would agree to set aside the land, and 10% of the construction cost annually to maintain it.