› added 5 years ago

177

TIL That the Etoro people of New Guinea believe that in order for a boy to achieve manhood they must first ingest the semen of their elders through fellatio. The nearby Kaluli tribe find this barbaric, and instead believe that the semen should be delivered to the boys in the anus.

Read more hci.ucsd.edu

via reddit.com

X64Q TIL the woman who founded Mother’s Day later tried to have it abolished because—by 1920—it had become too commercialized.
nMGb TIL In France, each train station has a piano in a prominent place for anyone to play. In 4 years, not a single one has been vandalized.
AD6p7 TIL: Human hair rejected by wigmakers and sent from hair salons is being used to create oil adsorbing booms for ocean oil spills. Hair can adsorb 3-9 times its own weight in oil.
KZm6 TIL that although lead paint was recognized as toxic as early as 1897 and banned by the League of Nations in 1922, the US did not ban lead paint until 1971.
a86vJ TIL that the human colon holds one of the highest bacterial density recorded in any habitat on Earth, estimated at 10¹¹ to 10¹² bacterial cells per milliliter.