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

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XEb0P TIL that from 1983 to 1987, the two members of the US House of Representatives from Maine, John McKernan and Olympia Snowe, were boyfriend and girlfriend. They later married after McKernan was elected Governor.
ANYMo TIL Honeybees use a waggle dance to tell others where to find food. The distance other bees must travel to the food source relates to the length of time it takes the bee to fly in one full circuit. The angle at which the bee flies in relation to the sun shows the direction of the food source.
Y79rA TIL about Richard Sakakida, an American spy operating in the Philippines before the attack on Pearl Harbor, who spied on the Japanese community in Manila before he was captured after the fall of Corregidor. During his capture, he was tortured and eventually led a jailbreak of about 500 prisoners.
rOgx TIL When Daniel Radcliffe was informed he won the role of Harry Potter, he was in the Bath! and to celebrate he was allowed to stay up an extra half an hour, past his bed time, and watch Faulty Towers!
xVlpD TIL Judas has his own Gospel written in Coptic Language, which provides another perspective of the infamous biblical villain (Repost)