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TIL: The Zimbabwean government complained that Chinese made condoms were too small.

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WPY4 TIL Albert Einstein used the same soap for shaving and washing because of a firm conviction that two kinds of soap needlessly complicate life.
0wkEj TIL that James Eagan Holmes, the guy who committed the Aurora shooting during the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises, was sentenced to 13 life sentences in prison, with an additional 3,318 years for rigging his apartment with bombs and 140 counts of attempted murder
x6v8B TIL that the stylized Dubai logo is the Arabic text for Dubai superimposed atop the English text
GYRLG TIL that The North Face clothing company sued a clothing company called The South Butt and won forcing them to shut down their web store, Facebook page, surrender all merchandise, and pay a $65,000 fine.
VlyD TIL because of the land shortage around Tokyo there is a planned project to build a pyramid-shaped building 14 times higher than the pyramids at Giza that would house about 1,000,000 people off the coast of Tokyo. All in one building. It’s called the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid.