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TIL in 1918 a judge in the USA ruled it was legal for condoms to be advertised and sold for the prevention of disease

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VMVb4 TIL that in the South Park Chinpokomon episode, the Japanese man who is always saying how small his penis is was actually based off a real person that Matt and Trey met.
4XgQo TIL the EU banned methanol in windshield washer fluid because alcoholics were drinking windshield washer fluid and dying.
Wmb8 TIL that an hour without eating means certain death for the Pygmy Shrew, whose heart beats 20 times per second.
epnJJ TIL Using programming to model entire wind farms and account for the wake of individual turbines increases energy production over all.
8lPX TIL that in 1937 Japan murdered 250,000 civilians in The Massacre of Nanjing. However, the Japanese government denies it.