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TIL Someone actually made and sold a reusable condom.

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5VrMB TIL American aboriginals used raccoon penis bones as a pipe cleaning tool
9djD TIL the Darlington Raceway aka “The Track Too Tough to Tame” is asymmetrical not becuase it makes racing on it more challenging, but because a local refused to move his minnow pond out of the way
4n4R TIL the circular huddle used in todays American Football was created by Paul D. Hubbard, a deaf quarterback, so the other team could not read his hand signals.
N7b96 TIL: the Pre-Code Era of Hollywood when movies were not systematically censored by an oversight group. Along with featuring stronger female characters, these films examined female subject matters that would not be revisited until decades later in US films.
Dmjr TIL that when the members of Steely Dan found out that the plot of “You, Me and Dupree” was stolen from one of their songs they wrote a letter demanding that Owen Wilson come to one of their concerts and apologize onstage or they would have one of their roadies beat him up.