# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674 "2020-04-13T03:19:22Z")
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### Author: ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6975 "2023-07-17T17:10:11Z")

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> [@Danger, Will Robinson (Discussing increased incidences of syphilis in Texas)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danger-will-robinson-discussing-increased-incidences-of-syphilis-in-texas/987050/2):
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> It’s easily treatable IF it gets diagnosed. Since the typical symptoms are painless chancres on the genitals which resolve in a few months (while the spirochetes continue to burrow deeper and deeper into the body), a LOT of folks just ignore those minimal symptoms, if they notice them at all. And if the disease advances to tertiary syphilis and it can be a real bugger to try to cure.

Today I learned that a chancre is not a person who works at a chancery.

I always spell the lesion “canker”.

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