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TIL when the Comstock Laws banned birth control, the makers of the Trojan condoms floated the restriction by selling Trojans as a protection against disease

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6Evvl TIL the guy who invented Vaseline used to go city to city dipping his hand in acid and burning it, showing previous wounds that had healed using his product
OyDL TIL that an English photographer makes her living by taking lookalike photos of celebrities, including so-called shots of the queen on the toilet, a US president playing guitar in a sauna, and Marilyn Monroe being intimate with J F K.
ZpyWo TIL that some medieval monks interpreted the scriptural Nemo Deum vidit (“No one hath seen God”), along with many other references to No-one in the Bible, to mean that Nemo was a certain person. Everything impossible, inadmissible, inaccessible is, on the contrary, permitted for Nemo.
5YP7B TIL in 1999, a Las Vegas couple were unable to come to a decision on how to split up their Beanie Baby collection during their divorce settlement. A judge ordered them to dump their collection on the floor of the court and take turns picking them one-by-one.
WkOMA TIL that John Henry Patterson, the engineer famous for killing the Tsavo lions was, while Protestant, the leader of the first all Jewish military unit in WWI and is a celebrated person in Israel today