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TIL: you can buy smart condoms that track your “performance”

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oJM7 TIL that Portugal’s national sandwich has steak, ham, dry sausage, fresh sausage, cheese - and then it’s covered in melted cheese and beer sauce.
GYmwG TIL That for thousands of years the The Bajau people of Southeast Asia have engaged in breath-hold diving, causing them to evolve large spleens. The larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells has helped them to become some of the world’s best free divers.
yQMd8 TIL that nearly every country except the United States has made it policy to not attack dams
VM5MQ TIL Villagers were often surprised to see Hong Kong governor Murray MacLehose in remote areas, asking how things were and clearing up rubbish on their beaches. The Chinese government invited him to visit Beijing in 1979, making his the first official visit by a governor since 1949
4XGgb Today I Learned the 'Croydon cat killer' hunt ended after a three-year investigation with Scotland Yard declaring humans in the clear and foxes likely to be behind mutilations in south London. Some speculated the killings had been part of "Satanic rituals"