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TIL earlier condoms were made from fish bladder or sheep gut.

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GKV1 TIL that the Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.
N94Q TIL that in 1978, a man was shot clean through the face by a particle beam and is still alive today.
ZGnp TIL that Eugene “Gene” Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, fulfilled a promise he made to his daughter Tracy by writing her initials on a moon rock. Those initials will probably remain there for thousands of years.
pYOyp TIL Japanese yen banknotes are produced from plants that grow in Nepal, making the Himalayan paper bush one of Nepal's important exports.
LkDAP TIL that Charles Darwin's pet tortoise died at 176 years old in 2006, whilst Darwin himself died in 1882.