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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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9wpbm TIL A professional baseball player named Chicken Wolf hit a walk-off (game-winning) inside-the-park home run due to an outfielder being bit by a dog.
j6o7R TIL about the Alipore Central Jail, a prison in Kolkata, India where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It is no longer operational as a jail. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed here.
pYBeA TIL, the common first name Stacy is the diminutive form of the name Anastasia.
4XwNJ TIL that in 1920 a 4th century lead tablet was discovered in which Silvanus asked the god Nodens to curse the thief that stole his ring. The ring, interestingly, has been identified as one found 130km from the tablet 200 years prior.
OG9X4 TIL nearly 8 in 10 Americans grew up with at least 1 sibling, making siblings a more ubiquitous presence in early life than fathers.