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TIL about virgin boy eggs, a traditional dish of Dongyang, Zhejiang, China in which eggs are boiled in the urine of young boys, preferably under the age of ten.

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oRJjo TIL: Medieval doctors had many theories about STDs. The Prose Salernitan, teaches that, leper semen might leave the woman unharmed, but turns into a putrid vapor inside her which enters the next man. Others believed too much intercourse depletes you and too little causes you to swell up and die.
5Ln9 TIL that a man was given a 13 year sentence for armed robbery in the year 2000, but the state of Missouri forgot to put him in prison. They only noticed in 2013, 13 years later, when it came time for his ‘release’.
QJZ7d TIL that the Walkie Talkie building in London can reflect sunlight so intensely that it once melted a car
95kr TIL: A physicist, having been cited for not stopping at an intersection, successfully defended himself through mathematical analysis of the situation. He published a paper to the court to prove his innocence.
8eQvb TIL that Ludvig Nobel, brother of Alfred Nobel (founder of the Nobel Prize) was a major oil developer in Baku, Azerbaijan. He created the first oil tanker ship, overcoming obstacles like avoiding fires on board, proper venting, heat expansion and balancing the ship. He refused to patent this.