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TIL MDMA is 100 years old this year

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PYyZL TIL in ancient Rome, soldiers would make contraceptives out of muscles or skin from their defeated enemies, referred to as a "victory condom"
gMZbL TIL Mark Twain was incredibly well traveled and wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth..."
R5gY6 TIL people with ALS or Lou Gehrig disease are disproportionately nice and pleasant, in addition to slowly losing all motor function, with makes doctors think it may also affect the frontal lobe.
1eOd TIL in 2004, a Mario game had a transgender playable character with a subplot about being accepted by her family. This was censored in the American version.
eZaD TIL in ancient Egypt, men could take time off of work to care for menstruating wives and daughters.