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TIL that a medical technician invented Rapex to help prevent rape in South Africa. This product resembles a female condom with sharp teeth. Any man who attempts to rape a woman impales himself on the teeth and must go to hospital to have the Rapex removed, hopefully coinciding with an arrest.

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