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TIL that Durex released a service called SOS condom, where condoms would get delivered to houses in 2 hours. It launched in Dubai, but the government banned it in a week. They ran an internet poll to vote on where it would be next, but trolls voted for the city “Batman” and won, and it was canned.

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e96n TIL an 82 year old woman in Kansas is regularly harassed by the FBI, police, IRS and others just because she lives in the central point of the US. Her property is automatically noted as the default location for 600 million IP addresses, including many used by online scammers.
xVbo TIL That the most unlikely Celebs are geniuses (Dolph Lundgren!)
GY1w1 TIL that Medieval Europeans thought that hedgehogs collected grapes on their spines.
6EE6J TIL Ireland used to have five Provinces instead of the current four.
wo5AJ TIL that a pair of man-made structures which are older than the pyramids, one of which has been dated to be the among the oldest known human structures on earth, are located on the LSU campus and were used for tailgate parties as recently as 2010.