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TIL Condom failure rates includes times where people didn’t use a condom at all during intercourse

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nWkoP TIL of John Andaman, the name given to the first Andamanese man captured by the British during their colonization of the islands in 1857. Though amazed by British Calcutta, he quickly grew ill with foreign diseases, and was returned to his home to advocate for British rule. He was never seen again.
R7Nma TIL there were once giant beavers called "castoroides", weighing up to 125 kg (276 lb) and measuring up to 2.2 m (7.2 ft) long, with 15 cm (6 in) long incisors.
R54n4 TIL about the Brazilian Wandering Spider. Native to Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina, its bite can cause a painful, hours-long erection.
YpLMP TIL That Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire who was highly interested in languages, raised 6 young infants without any human interaction in an effort to discover the "natural" language of the human race. The only result was the death of the babies, as they needed human contact to survive
gM4L8 TIL Danny DeVito did the dub for his role as the titular character in The Lorax (2012) in Russian, German, Italian, Catalan, and Castilian Spanish, despite not speaking any of those languages