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TIL Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offered a $100,000 start up grant to design next generation condoms that “significantly preserves or enhances pleasure” and promote regular use.

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OlD4 TIL that the diet of the Bearded Vulture is ~90% bones, allowing it to return to a carcass long after other scavengers have removed any soft tissues. Bones too large to swallow are dropped from great height to crack them into smaller pieces.
ZRMD TIL that Qatar is 25% female.
eJgk TIL Coke has a relationship with Mcdonalds and gives them perks to make their coke taste better, such as better water filters, cooler tubes, and better containers for syrup.
e0vxn TIL that a French surgeon first started wearing blue scrubs during surgery in 1914 because he discovered it reduced eye strain for doctors working endless hours during WWI. "Ciel Blue" became standard once surgery was videotaped in the 1970s and white scrubs conflicted with the white lights.
lo6bN TIL that only five nations have the capability to launch a missile to any place on earth, and they happen to be the exact same five countries that are designated as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (United States, China, France, Russia, Britain).