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TIL in 2020 Vietnamese police seized 350,000 used condoms that were being recycled to be sold as new. It is unknown how many had already been sold.

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0d6YL TIL that the Chicago Daily Tribune was so sure in Thomas E. Dewey winning the 1948 presidential election, they printed the next day edition with an incorrect headline "Dewey Defeats Truman".
yVblw TIL the president of Haiti was assassinated in 2021 and the perpetrators are still unknown
0dJ9j TIL the Pathenon base (stylobate) was built curved in the two directions in order to make it look perfect from the distance
N7k6e TIL: Dipsy is the most stubborn of the Teletubbies, and will occasionally refuse to go along with the others' group opinion. His face is notably darker than the rest of the Teletubbies, and the creators have stated that he is black.
e0xWE TIL Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Were In The 1700s