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

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gMyvX TIL of Steven Bradbury's olympic gold after all of his opponents were involved in a last corner pile-up.
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ADM6a TIL The historical name of Czechia was "Bohemia". Boiohaemum, as it was originally known in Latin, comes from the Germanic "Boi-haima", meaning "home of the Boii".
epK6b TIL that in Ancient Rome, citizens and soldiers drank an average of 100 gallons (~450 litres) of wine per year
p8e64 TIL when Robert Ballard (professor of oceanography) announced a mission to find the Titanic, it was a cover story for a classified mission to search for lost nuclear submarines. They finished before they were due back, so the team spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and actually found it.