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TIL That Vasalgel, the non-profit US FDA-conforming treatment to provide reversible, chemical male birth control, was rejected from crowdfunding on kickstarter for being ‘too medical’

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0w0oA TIL A pair of low power (2-3x), wide-field binoculars can pull in fainter stars while still showing entire large constellations. Observers describe these binoculars giving them 'super vision', as Constellations outlined by fainter 4th and 5th magnitude stars, like Eridanus , pop into view
e0OAD TIL 1 in 4 Irish citizens either died or left Ireland during the great potato famine of the 1840s.
Gp1Q TIL Danny McBride was offered a minor league baseball contract because of his role as Kenny Powers
po4A TIL that Microsoft Encarta (original codename “Gandalf”) began as a pet project for Bill Gates around 1985 after being rejected by Encyclopaedia Britannica as a partner in making material available to PC users as a CD-ROM. Encarta’s eventual demise in 2009 was widely attributed to Wikipedia
1eV4 TIL that from 2010 to 2015, Taco Bell secretly reduced the sodium content in 33 menu items by 33%. Responding to consumer demand for healthier fare and without notifying the public, Taco Bell reduced the salt content in its food and instead substituted other spices to net the same taste.