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TIL: Toilet paper wasn’t invented until the 1800s and many countries do not use TP!

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DlKj TIL Issac Newton roamed the streets as anti-counterfeit coin vigilante, then invented the ridges on coins to reduce fraud currency
oKPK TIL regular condoms are too big for men of ALL nationalities.. not just Indian men as the 2006 BBC News article says
a8VA0 TIL That Jonah Falcon, the man who claimed to have a penis that's 13.5 inches long, is a fraud.
Yp0yv TIL of Thales (620-546BC), who is considered to be the first philosopher because the lineage cannot be traced beyond him. His magnus opus: “All is water”
OGaj4 TIL that some cultures believe that sleeping with your head facing north is bad for you