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TIL Someone actually made and sold a reusable condom.

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yVGNa TIL that as part of his 2014 reelection campaign, Indonesian legislator Eriko Sotarduga provided free haircuts and motorcycle repairs for locals.
kA9m TIL a professor at Princeton found that our brains sometimes process images of people who are poor or homeless as if they were not humans but things.
e0EGL TIL: The hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a Tigon. The hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger is called a Liger. A litigon is a rare second generation hybrid from a female tigon (a hybrid between a male tiger and a female lion) and a male lion ????
MeVoV TIL in 1996, a bill called the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act was passed to protect food vendors from liability for giving unused food to the needy instead of throwing it away for liability reasons.
9wZ1M TIL a 172 year old specimen at the Mütter Museum helped researchers fight a modern cholera epidemic