Post * AJDx — Curious Curator

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TIL: In the late 19th century the feminist movements in both Europe and America were decidedly anti-condom. Feminists wanted birth control to be exclusively in the hands of women, and disapproved of male-controlled methods such as the condom.

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AVGl TIL Robert Rodriguez started receiving phone calls at random hours of the day from Danny Trejo, trying to convince him to make the Machete film. Robert asked why Danny can’t just send a text message instead of constantly calling, to which Trejo replied: “Machete don’t text.”

E0Vd TIL Scientists isolated bacterium from a man’s intestines & used it to fatten mice specially bred to resist obesity. The microbe made up 35% of microorganisms in his digestive tract & a diet formulated to kill off those bacteria reduced the levels to below detection. He lost 113 pounds in 23 weeks.

yw8X TIL the International Space station is the size of a football field and can be spotted by night, as it is the third brightest object in the sky and orbits around the world every 92 minutes.

ePZD TIL that after filling up a sheet of paper with text, people used to continue writing over the text at a right angle to save paper

maWO TIL Freddie Mercury once dressed Princess Di up as a man and snuck her into a gay bar