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TIL that Breakfast is Often Considered the Most Important Meal of the Day – But Is It Really?

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yVg9l TIL In the oldest surviving law code, some of the laws include: "If a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out half a mina of silver." and "If a man has cut off another man's foot, he is to pay ten shekels."
yVkmp TIL that the leading theory for why penis heads look like mushrooms is because “it’s a good shape for scooping out other men’s semen” — aptly named the Semen Displacement Hypothesis
MxPK TIL: China used RPGs to disperse rain clouds during the olympics
ZnDR TIL the Sword in the Stone story was inspired by a real sword stuck in a stone. It was placed there miraculously by the first officially canonized saint in the Catholic Church in the 12th c. It’s still in the stone in a church in Italy.
KOvj9 TIL about the ghost plant. Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Instead of generating energy from sunlight, it is parasitic.Its hosts are certain fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, meaning it ultimately gets its energy from photosynthetic trees.