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TIL The developers of “Game Dev Tycoon” released a Cracked version of the game to the PirateBay, where players can’t profit from their creations because of… Piracy

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e0v05 TIL that schistosomiasis, a parasite infection that causes bloody urine, was so common in Egypt that French doctors traveling with Napoleon during his 1798 campaign described Egypt as the only country where men menstruate.
l7K17 TIL: A 2020 study revealed that one's taste is connected with their ethnicity and gender. Asians experience taste more intensely due to being more likely to be "supertasters" having the compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) and being thermal tasters. Caucasians are much less sensitive in comparison.
ADVbd TIL developers in China built a sex theme park ‘Love Land’ with naked human sculptures, giant replica genitals, sex technique workshops and a photo gallery on the history of sex. It was deemed a negative influence on Chinese society and the government demolished it before it could open
0xKp TIL that one of Franz Ferdinand’s descendants is trying to reacquire his estate. This estate was seized by Czechoslovakia after the end of World War I, but this descendant argues that this seizure was unjust since Franz Ferdinand’s children weren’t members of the Habsburg royal family.
jNW9v TIL pirates accepted gay marriage and often had relationships with other male pirates for protection and companionship. Pirates enmeshed in matelotage shared everything from affection and other sexual partners to possessions.