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TIL Virgin boy eggs are a traditional dish of Dongyang, Zhejiang, China in which eggs are boiled in the urine of young boys who were presumably peasants, preferably under the age of ten.

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4k8yX TIL : The French have a traditional Martial Art where one fights with a cane, developed by French gentlemen in the 19th century in big unsafe cities.
rNdgw TIL a study found that some chocolate purchased at U.S. supermarkets contained up to 0.965 µg per gram of lead, close to the international standard limit for lead in cocoa powder or beans, which is 1 µg of lead per gram. This limit is voluntary.
7MZX TIL that it is preferable to be electrocuted by a current greater than 200 milliamps rather than 100-200 milliamps. Your chances of survival are much higher in the upper range because your heart clamps rather than fibrillates.
wY5E TIL that the “ITT” in ITT Tech stands for Institute of Technological Technology making the school’s full name “The Institute of Technological Technology Technical Institute”
BgVbD TIL that sci fi franchises popular around the world today like Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, Mad Max, and even anime like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Akira are directly inspired by a small French porn comic of the 1970s by the name of Métal Hurlant.