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TIL that Bill Gates is offering $100,000 to the scientist who creates a next generation condom that “significantly preserves or improves sexual pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use”.

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6ERvm TIL that China has a law that enforces adult children to visit and care for their elderly parents.
16Bdd TIL about the Struwwelpeter, a 19th Century children's book in Germany showing moral lessons with disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. One of the stories tell about a boy who doesn't stop sucking his thumbs until a tailor appears out of nowhere and cuts off his fingers.
PY0xe TIL: Hitler has commited another genocide besides the Jewish Holocaust. Histestimate that between 220,000 and 500,000 Romani were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators.
16Bg4 TIL of handkerchief color codes, used as a way to non-verbally express sexual activities and fetishes. Red is for fisting.
b697p TIL pro-segregationist Virginia politician Harry F. Byrd was a direct descendant of Pocahontas