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TIL The earliest condoms (16th century) were made of pig intestines and sometimes had sexual illustrations on them.

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VBK1k TIL the phrase "Writing on the Wall" originates from the Book of Daniel (Old Testament) in which King Belshazzar sees a disembodied hand writing the doomed fate of the Babylonian Empire on a wall at a party
xwxg TIL that every receipt at every store in Taiwan is a ticket for a government lottery with top prizes worth over 300,000 USD. It was introduced in 1951 to combat sales tax dodging by businesses.
ADdpa TIL Cesar Chavez had a dog named Boycott who taught him "to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings." He said “Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting, and rodeos are all cut from the same defective fabric: violence.”
XE4LR TIL of Steller's Sea Cow, a recently extinct giant manatee that weighed between 4,000-11,000 kg
rRMxy TIL that "ang mo" - meaning "red-haired" - is a term used in Singapore and Taiwan to refer to white people, while "ang mo sai" - meaning "red-haired sh*t" - is a term used in those countries to refer to Chinese people who aren't able to read Chinese and have lost their cultural identity