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TIL Radium-Nutex Condoms from 1927 were marketed using the contemporary popular belief that radium, thought to cure ailments and boost energy and could enhance sexual performance. However, these condoms contained no radium.
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TIL that from ~1927, the US based "Nutex Company" sold 'Radium-Nutex' condoms. The product was seized and destroyed on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission in 1940 for false claims of effectiveness. They didn't contain any radium.