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

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Le4V TIL that in 1919, Eisenhower and the Army tried to drive across the country. They barely made it, so Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System when he became President.
kWoE TIL that tea parties weren’t invented until the 1830s; which means the 1773 Boston Tea Party wasn’t known by that name until more than 60 years after the event. At the time it was referred to as “the destruction of the tea”.
ADw6B TIL that in 2013, a truck hauling Cobalt-60, a radioactive isotope of cobalt often used in cancer treatment, was hijacked by thieves who were unaware of the truck's contents. The truck was found abandoned 2 days later in a cornfield near Mexico City, with the cobalt outside of its protective casing.
ADEox TIL Prince created a video game in 1994 called Prince Interactive. The game was similar to Myst, and it featured Prince's music and his recording studio Paisley Park.
vP0Dx TIL Paul Robeson was an African American lawyer, stage actor (in New York and London), singer, and pro athlete, who won 15 letters in four varsity sports at Rutgers, was elected Phi Beta Kappa and became his class valedictorian after earning a scholarship at age 17 in 1915