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

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BgrXd TIL rapper Immortal Technique used to bully playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda in high school
nWvMo TIL during sling load operations with helicopters, a dangerous amount of static can build up on the airframe so one of the loaders has to use a discharge wand hooked to a grounding stake or they will receive a fatal electric shock.
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PYZ8J TIL that in 1987, Ruud Gullit won the Ballon d'Or and dedicated the trophy to Nelson Mandela, who was in jail at the time. When people criticized him for taking a political stance, he explained that to him, it wasn't about politics, but simply a human decision
oBwKL TIL in 2018 NASA scientists have devised a set of new, modern constellations. These include the Hulk, Godzilla, TARDIS, Mjolnir and the U.S.S. Enterprise.