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TIL that in the Talmud, regarding to the question of the method of verifying if a previously perforated penis is healed, a Rabbi presents the solution of making someone cum from the heat of warm barley bread placed in the anus, to see if the cum does not go out from the perforation.

loe0r TIL in 2005, a glitch called the Corrupted Blood Incident in World of Warcraft caused a pandemic that killed populations of players, which attracted the attention of scientists for its implications of how human populations could react to a real-world epidemic.
nvnY TIL Mark Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s Comet and predicted he would die during its next visit. He wrote “here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together” He died the day after Halley’s Comet returned.
KZyB TIL The largest ransom ever paid to a single individual was to the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, by the Inca Empire before their leader, Atahualpa, the victim, was executed in 1532. The ransom payment of a “roomful of gold” was probably over $2 billion in today’s economic markets.
xVDyb TIL psychiatrist Avicenna had a malnourished patient who believed he was a cow ready to be slaughtered. Avicenna, impersonating a butcher, came to kill him but said the cow was too lean and had to eat more. The patient ate more food which restored his health and cured the delusion.
QKge TIL Heath Ledger’s portrayal of “The Joker” scared Michael Cain so much, he forgot his lines.