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TIL that there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called “Da Jesus Book”

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N9vb TIL Huichol Indian men tie ropes around their testicles when their wives are giving birth. When she feels a painful contraction, she tugs on the rope so her husband will share some of the pain as part of their child’s entrance into the world.
rr9x TIL Australian police were able to indict a suspected ringleader of a child porn site by matching a freckle on his finger with one in images of child abuse.
grAGL Today I learned Zambia, I country in Southern Africa tried to go to Mars in an oil drum
16pWW TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!
XpWr TIL: In 1991, a crowd of hundreds of people tried to play a single game Pong on a big screen, and quickly learned to do it successfully (Loren Carpenter experiment)