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TIL in 1836, condoms were made from vulcanized rubber. They were custom fitted by a doctor, and were designed to be reusable. It wasn’t until 1919 that condoms began to be manufactured from liquid latex.

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x45 TIL the USAAF filmed hundreds of hours of post-war Europe in summer 1945, most of which has never been seen. Special Film Project 186 has been called “the biggest color film project of World War II—and the biggest unseen film of all time.”
b9Yj TIL that there is flood story that predates Noah’s Ark.
XEMmk TIL that there is a severe shortage of ‘spitter apples’ which are preferred for making ciders because during prohibition the FBI went around chopping down huge swaths of orchards, effectively erasing much of the nation’s stock of spitter apple trees that initially take 20-30 years to grow.
VMDR0 TIL Soviet scientists accidently turned lead into gold during their tests with an experimental nuclear reactor
OoY0R TIL Researchers at King's College London found that the drug Tideglusib stimulates the stem cells contained in the pulp of teeth so that they generate new dentine – the mineralised material under the enamel.