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TIL Green Day payed to host a schools prom at a different location when the school board cancelled it because they didn’t want same sex couples at their prom

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OGyQe 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.
ne4p9 TIL green screens are green because it doesn’t match any natural skin tone of the actor so no part of them will be accidentally edited out.
d8DlB TIL The earliest known Fiat Currency was used by the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)
Bg7OK TIL, In the movie 300, a Persian emissary is thrown down a well by Leonidas. In reality, Sparta sent two volunteers back to Persia to be executed, in atonement for the deaths of the Persians.
4kdRJ TIL a Dutch minesweeper disguised itself as an Island in WW2 and successfully snuck past the Japanese Imperial Navy in the Java Sea