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TIL that NASA's Apollo astronauts had to pee into a sort of condom, but some would choose the large size, instead of the small or medium, out of pride, so they had to rename the sizes to extra-large, immense, and unbelievable.

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wLZx8 TIL that George Wallace, the governor who tried to stop two black students from attending the University of Alabama, became a born-again Christian in the late 70s, rebuked his support for segregation, and when reelected in the 80s, made a record number of black appointees to state positions.
Kl44 TIL that in North Korea’s Prison Camps conditions are so bad that 20 to 25 per cent of the prison population dies every year [nsfw]
YdQr TIL of an evolutionary rock-paper-scissors mechanism. Three variants of the Common Side-Blotched Lizard compete for mates; Orange males are adapted to steal mates from Blue males, who are adapted to steal mates from Yellow males, who in turn are adapted to steal mates from Orange males.
5VmoP TIL of Richard Francis Burton, an 19th century British explorer and writer, who disguised himself as Muslim in order to get into both Mecca and Medina. While he was not the first European to go to either one of those cities, his pilgrimage is the most famous and best documented of the time.
pYJjp TIL Albert Lexie was a shoeshiner who worked at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh beginning in the early 1980s. Over the course of his roughly 30-year career he donated $200,000 to the Free Care Fund, more than a third of his lifetime salary.