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TIL - You can actually sell your stool

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w016 TIL there are Porn Inspectors in China, whose job is to solely watch porn to verify that it is illegal material
j6daR TIL that The Sting (1973) was the first movie by Universal to win the Oscar for best picture in 43 years, since All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
4kkM6 TIL about Ocular Herpes Simplex Keratitis. This is HSV of the eyes. While 1/3 of humans have genital HSV, about 1.4M people have OHSK. Also, Keratitis is the #1 cause of cornea-related blindness.
wojd1 TIL that the Voynich manuscript, a 240-page codex from the early 1400s, is written in an unknown script that has never been deciphered. The codex is filled with fantastical illustrations and its purpose and origins are unknown.
xV1JD TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Instead of sitting his client at the witness table, he dressed another lawyer to look like the client. When the only witness (a policeman) was asked to point to the defendant in the room he pointed to the fake client. The real defendant was found not guilty