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TIL Someone actually made and sold a reusable condom.

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WRl4 TIL Out of the 403 episodes of “The Joy of Painting” with Bob Ross, 91% of them contain at least one happy tree and 2% of them contain bridges.
1a4dV TIL that United Airlines operated daily "men only" flights between New York and Chicago from 1953 to 1970
7rmdp TIL New York City’s tap water is full of copepods (tiny crustaceans). Because of this, the water is technically not kosher.
Kea9 TIL bridges can be made from the roots of living trees. These Root Bridges takes at least 15 years to build, but is automatically strengthened over time and can last centuries.
N7QDQ TIL that Boston Corbett - the man who killed John Wilkes Booth (the man who killed Abraham Lincoln) - most likely suffered from psychosis due to inhaling mercury fumes in his job as a hatter, and once castrated himself with a pair of scissors