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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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R5na8 TIL Detroit-style deep dish pizza was created when Gus Guerra tried baking pizzas in spare car parts.
0x9v TIL in 1940, 11-year-old Audrey Hepburn studied ballet in occupied Holland. To aid the resistance, the students performed in secret while Nazi patrols roamed nearby. Applause was forbidden, and later Hepburn said, “The best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performance.”
dDVQE TIL A Canadian man ordered Brylcreem, a hair styling product from a Canadian e-commerce site in 2012 and received the package in 2020
Vaym TIL that the Jeddah Tower, which is currently under construction in Saudi Arabia and will be the tallest building in the world upon its completion, is being constructed by the Saudi Binladin Group, which is owned by the family of Osama bin Laden, who destroyed two of the world’s largest buildings.
nWnbb TIL The blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield got famous through a media blitz and a series of intentional wardrobe malfunctions. Mansfield's strategically busting seams got her constant coverage, even her measurements were nationally famous. In 1960 Mansfield was in more print than anyone else on earth.