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TIL tampon companies test the absorbency of their products with a synthetic vagina called a Syngyna

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XEok8 TIL the original board game of "the game of life" was much more depressing than the modern one we know of today. It included the chances of getting Poverty, ruin, Prison time, and even Suicide.
oBDmL TIL that Thomas Dolby (of "She blinded me with Science!" Founded a Sound technology company called Beatnik, which created the Nokia tone.
pYMA4 TIL that in 1987, a farmer in Argentina stumbled upon a giant tibia bone sticking out of the ground. It belonged to a massive dinosaur now known as Argentinosaurus, which some scientists consider the largest land animal to ever exist
Egyox TIL The inspiration for the creation of YouTube (according to co-founder Jawed Karim, the guy in "Me at the zoo") was that it was difficult to find videos online of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime flash.
rNWrW TIL the smallest number that can be divided by each number between 1 and 10 is 2520.