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TIL that during the cold war, the CIA considered air dropping over the USSR XL sized condoms labeled as medium. This was made in an attempt to make the soviets think americans where anatomically superior to them to demoralize them.

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Z8VOv TIL that during the filming of Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone asked Dolph Lundgren to try to knock him out. Lundgren punched him in the chest so hard that he had to go to the hospital for five days.
kOkGB TIL Pope Clement VIII loved coffee: he supposedly tasted the "Muslim drink" [coffee] at the behest of his priests, who wanted him to ban it. "Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious, that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it..."
m1J8R TIL: The children's film "The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin" was actually a co-production between Japan and the Soviet Union and was originally titled "The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin". Also, a lot of death and violence was edited out of the English version.
j6xPj TIL that until the 18th century, animal trials in court were common across Europe, including trials for murder and beastiality. In 1386, a pig was found guilty of killing a child, it was then dressed in male clothing and executed in the town square.
4XoXR TIL: A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 Marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 Marks by late 1923. By November 1923, the US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German marks