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TIL: In 2019, Salman Mirza and his ex wanted to hook up, but didn't have a condom, so they used epoxy resin to seal it in instead. His friends later found him unconscious and drove him to the hospital where he died of multiple organ failures due to the faux condom.

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exYn TIL a Subaru production plant in Lafayette, Indiana has celebrated almost a decade of being ‘zero landfill’, while producing more than 1.7 million cars. The plant is also a designated wildlife habitat, co-existing peacefully with wildlife in the area.
0rER TIL Harriet Tubman suffered from narcolepsy. She developed the condition as a result of a head injury sustained when she defied an order from the slave master.
gMa6L TIL that HG Wells was basically a huge nerd. He invented a tabletop wargame, like Warhammer, and once complained that a game was ruined by the "chattering of lady visitors."
epyOJ TIL: Zilog has announced that they will soon stop taking orders their 8-bit Z80 CPU in 2024, after almost 50 years in production. It was a common CPU in many homecomputers, arcade machines and some game consoles in the '70s and '80s. It's surprisingly enough (as of now) still manufactured.
16Bdd TIL about the Struwwelpeter, a 19th Century children's book in Germany showing moral lessons with disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. One of the stories tell about a boy who doesn't stop sucking his thumbs until a tailor appears out of nowhere and cuts off his fingers.