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TIL condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.

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Pj7E TIL Listerine coined the term ‘halitosis’ in order to boost the sales of their mouthwash by telling people that they had a health condition. This has historically been one of medicalization’s most successful stories.
9Y8oD TIL about US presidential pet hamsters Debbie and Billie. Billie, who ate his own children, who was then eaten by Debbie, who then died of indigestion.
DQ14Y TIL about "Anderson's Piano", a complex systems of wires and weights that has been protecting railways in the Scottish Highlands from rock falls for over 140 years.
VMAxD TIL that Dr. Seuss was humiliated by Theodore Roosevelt when he was a kid during an award ceremony, resulting in Dr. Seuss fearing large crowds for the rest of his life.
Egdoo TIL that in 1890 an anticlerical journalist (Leo Taxil) pulled off a 12-year prank to humiliate the Vatican involving: inventing a cult of satanic Freemasons, paying his typist to play the part of a Luciferian Templar Mistress, revealing it all to have been a hoax once the Vatican had endorsed it.