Today I Learned…

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Whilst you can die from Herpes if left untreated, it’s quite rare but, If you do get Herpes, the virus stays with you for life.
Always get yourselves checked out as testing and treatment is very easy.
There is a case in Kent of two pregnant women contracting herpes in hospital and both dying, I was stunned
 
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Whilst you can die from Herpes if left untreated, it’s quite rare but, If you do get Herpes, the virus stays with you for life.
Always get yourselves checked out as testing and treatment is very easy.
And the herpes virus can live for 74 hours on a toilet seat. Unusual as most viruses die quite quickly outside the body.
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Don’t say that …. I get a cold sore occasionally when it’s really hot !
Just don't have oral sex with anyone on those days.
 
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I thought it was just babies and aids patients that could die from herpes.

I got coldsores when I was younger but don't really get them now unless I'm really run down. But when I give birth the hormones and the exhaustion brings on a massive outbreak that takes a while.to go. So I have this beautiful little baby, that I'm terrified to get near my face incase my herpes kills them.
 
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I thought it was just babies and aids patients that could die from herpes.

I got coldsores when I was younger but don't really get them now unless I'm really run down. But when I give birth the hormones and the exhaustion brings on a massive outbreak that takes a while.to go. So I have this beautiful little baby, that I'm terrified to get near my face incase my herpes kills them.
The two women who died had just had babies, but were not known herpes sufferers previously
 
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I remember being devastated to find out Jeremy Sheffield is gay!🤣 (he’s the hot guy in the video for Torn)
He's also in Queen's "I want to Break Free" video.

I have an original vs. cover playlist, perhaps my biggest surprise was "Girls just wanna have fun" is a cover...originally by a man called Robert Hazard!
 
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... that Maid Marion and her Merry Men is a) having a come back and b) was written by Tony Robinson.

I've never been keen on him and had no idea it was written by him but it was so good (from what young me remembers). Like an 80's/90's Horrible Histories.

I'm now going to have the theme tune in my head for days.

🎶 Why don't you carr-ry on, with-a what you're - doooing, making he-eros, out of Merry Men 🎶
 
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Skin products labeled “lotion” as opposed to “cream” have less oil.
 
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... that Maid Marion and her Merry Men is a) having a come back and b) was written by Tony Robinson.

I've never been keen on him and had no idea it was written by him but it was so good (from what young me remembers). Like an 80's/90's Horrible Histories.

I'm now going to have the theme tune in my head for days.

🎶 Why don't you carr-ry on, with-a what you're - doooing, making he-eros, out of Merry Men 🎶
Me and my sister loved this. We used to know every word. In my head too now 😂
 
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That a strawberry isn’t a fruit as such. The tiny seeds are the fruits 😱
“A strawberry is actually a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle. The brownish or whitish specks, which are commonly considered seeds, are the true fruits, called achenes, and each of them surrounds a tiny seed”
 
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That a strawberry isn’t a fruit as such. The tiny seeds are the fruits 😱
“A strawberry is actually a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle. The brownish or whitish specks, which are commonly considered seeds, are the true fruits, called achenes, and each of them surrounds a tiny seed”
in botanical terms, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are not berries. however, bananas, kiwis, avocados, grapes are berries. 🤯
 
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Human babies are born about 6 or 7 months premature in an evolutionary sense, to accommodate our superior brain power compared to other mammals, as any longer would make it impossible for the woman to fit her child through her birth canal, which is why the young of most mammals and especially our nearest match - primates - are far more capable and aware and can run, graze, and are aware of surroundings than human babies.
 
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Human babies are born about 6 or 7 months premature in an evolutionary sense, to accommodate our superior brain power compared to other mammals, as any longer would make it impossible for the woman to fit her child through her birth canal, which is why the young of most mammals and especially our nearest match - primates - are far more capable and aware and can run, graze, and are aware of surroundings than human babies.
Fascinating, I always wondered why some animals can just start running around hours after birth 🤯
 
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something I posted on another thread: the only countries that have “The” in their name are The Gambia and The Bahamas.
 
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