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TIL 1 in every 6 couples that use condoms will become pregnant due to misuse. 1 in 50 will become pregnant due to product failure.

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VD40 TIL In 1968 captured American sailors secretly gave the finger in propaganda photos released by the North Korean government.
aw5PZ TIL Dr. John Kellogg who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium starting in 1876 believed that most ailments resulted from unclean bowels full of toxins from undigested food. To that end, he administered enemas with a device capable of running fifteen gallons of water through a patient's bowel in seconds.
OGvEL TIL Spotted Hyenas have a pseudopenis
E1ANp TIL that hog rectum and calamari have a taste and texture similar enough to be hard to tell apart
JL4l TIL that in ancient Rome, one of the most common cooking ingredients was called “laser”, from the silphium plant. It does not exist today: it was so delicious that it was harvested to extinction from its natural habitat in what is now Libya. We think that it probably tasted something like garlic.