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TIL that multiple male contraceptives have already been developed and are ready for use in humans. But pharmaceutical companies are refusing to invest in clinical trials because they do not think there is enough of a market.

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Lky69 TIL of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a 19th century MP . He was involved in the reforming of insane asylums, responsible for several important child labour laws, and campaigned against the opium trade. As a result of his philanthropy he was known as 'The poor man's Earl'.
99jr TIL: 5% of people do not experience a headache in their lifetime.
1O7V TIL Elephants skeletal structuring is not designed to carry weight on their backs, but rather weight from below. Many Elephants end up with deformed and broken backs as a result of years of long hours spent carrying tourists around.
Eom0 TIL that in 1921 a group of whites burnt the wealthiest black community, in the United States, known as “black wall street”, to ground. Firebombs were dropped from airplanes and hundreds were killed. This massacre was not acknowledged in state history records until 1996.
gM1OA TIL that the busiest day Dominos Pizza ever had wasn't thanks to a Super Bowl but the O.J. Simpson Bronco Chase