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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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4Ejg TIL in 1961 a B-52 broke up over Goldsboro, NC dropping two 3.8MT H-bombs, each exceeding the yield of all detonations in worldwide history by TNT, gunpowder, conv. bombs, and the WWII nuclear blasts combined. One came perilously close to detonating and creating “a very large Bay of North Carolina.“
rN9p1 TIL about the Suffragette bombing and arson campaign
9Yn0B TIL Tons of popular restaurants use red,orange or yellow as those colours makes people hungry-er some examples are: McDonalds,KFC,Jack in the box and Dairy Queen.
dDxNd TIL that Michael Jackson’s first no.1 solo single (and later album title track), “Ben”, was originally recorded as the title track of a horror movie about a killer rat.
VMGQ TIL there is an island called Dildo off the coast of Canada.