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TIL Oreos are vegan and the “creme” filling contains no milk products.

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Lk9pr TIL King Henry VIII was such a big fan of codpieces (a type of flap or pouch protruding from a man's trousers) that there used to be a wooden statue of him at the Tower of London with a secret mechanism in the floor. When you stepped on the right spot, the royal codpiece would swing forth.
yQreV TIL The oldest condoms ever found were made from animal and fish intestines. One particular example found in Sweden was crafted from pig intestine, and is thought to have been made around 1640 AD.
yjel TIL An elephant (Tarra) and a stray dog (Bella) were inseparable best friends at a sanctuary in TN. Tarra even waited outside a building for a week as Bella healed from an injury.
GAvP1 TIL the 1916 and 1968 presidential elections are the only times where the winner lost both their home state and their running mate's state.
p86Ob TIL that Brazil was the only South American country to send troops abroad during World War II