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TIL: “In France, nearly 96% of high schools…have condom vending machines”

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l79EK TIL about the Mimizuka. A monument dedicated to the 40,000 noses cut from Korean faces and brought to the Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi by his soldiers during the Imjin War
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BYAx TIL American bars first began offering complimentary hard-boiled eggs in the mid-1800s. The idea was to give customers sustenance so they wouldn’t become sloppy drunks, and at the same time making the customers thirsty so they would order more drinks