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TIL Bruce Lee used edible Marijuana on a regular basis

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woEk6 TIL The earliest condoms (16th century) were made of pig intestines and sometimes had sexual illustrations on them.
W7Zo9 TIL about Shockwave, a semi-truck outfitted with three jet engines capable of producing 36,000 horsepower which allowed the truck to complete the quarter-mile in 6.63 seconds. It consumed fuel at a rate equal to 400 gallons per mile (940 liters per km), even more when using the afterburners.
wMm8 TIL Chuck Yeager - first pilot to exceed Mach 1 - was shot down over France in WW2, taught bomb-making to Resistance groups who helped him, escaped into Spain, argued the high command into letting him back into combat against regulations, then became an Ace (bringing down 5 enemy aircraft) in 1 day.
QJQjX TIL Sergei Preminin was a Russian sailor who sacrificed his life to prevent a reactor meltdown aboard the Soviet submarine K-219. The submarine was off the coast of Bermuda and a reactor meltdown would have spread radiation across the entire North American Atlantic coast.
W7oJB TIL the man who almost assassinated Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr., now has a Youtube account where he performs music.