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TIL about a method called the 'Oil Change' that some individuals use to pass drug tests. A sterilized tube is inserted into the urethra to drain urine from the bladder. Subsequently, a syringe is employed to inject clean urine obtained from a donor into the tube, filling the bladder with clean urine

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loDlK TIL that the comedy "The Country Wife" written in 1675 was banned in Britain for 175 years for being too sexually vulgar. The main character, Harry Horner, claims to be impotent to sell "china" to the wives of upper-class Londoners. At the time, "china" was a popular euphemism for sperm.
l4WV TIL Tété-Michel Kpomassie, a Togolese writer, fell in love with Greenland as a child because of the absence of snakes in the country, his biggest fear. Due to this, he ran away from home and after 12 years he finally reached Greenland. He then wrote a book about it called: “An African in Greenland”
OGgLR TIL after Judith Barsi's murder in 1988. The entire production crew for Don Bluth's "All Dogs Go to Heaven" had a difficult time working on the film. Animators that worked on scenes featuring Anne Marie actually broke down while lessening to Barsi's cassette recordings for the character.
8Wja TIL: Einstein explained Relativity as “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”
y75v TIL: In 2011, a pair of managers from Dominos set fire to a Papa Johns to boost their sales