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

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E1YKV TIL that In 1807, while hunting, a group of 3,000 rabbits barraged Napoleon Bonaparte and his men. They attempted to fight off the fuzzy creatures, but ended up fleeing and escaping in their coach.
W4gL TIL In 1952, Kent cigarettes introduced an asbestos filter to protect its smokers
0BmN TIL that in pre Civil War South Carolina, U.S. congressmen were required to own at least 10 slaves to run for office.
x61Ak TIL that Caren Marsh Doll was Judy Garland's stand-in for The Wizard of Oz, and also had a bit part in Gone With the Wind. She was in a plane crash in 1949 which resulted in an amputated foot. She is still alive at 102, one of the oldest survivors of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
8epDZ TIL that the widely accepted "Learning Styles" theory "everyone has a different learning style (visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic)" has almost no experimental data behind it. The few researches done on the subject proved the opposite.