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TIL that a new type of condom additive was approved for mass production in Australia that could kill STDs, including HIV and herpes

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e0W5D TIL Kenny Rogers started his music career as a double bass player in a jazz trio
ojL8 TIL that in 1971, on the day before Bangladesh officially won its Liberation War, Pakistani soldiers kidnapped the brightest Bengali intellectuals–writers, philosophers, historians, mathematicians, physicists, poets–and slaughtered them in the middle of the night.
APbl TIL the placebo effect can work even if the patient is told they’re taking a placebo.
9YXXr TIL that blue jays go bald in last August after seeing a bald lil dude eating out of my bird feeder (they only shed their head and neck feathers)
KOjXE TIL that Sir Ian McKellen turned down the role of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter franchise as he felt it would be inappropriate after the previous actor, Richard Harris, called him a 'dreadful actor'