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TIL that some Renaissance painters were fascinated by Jesus's penis

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5xyQ TIL that there is a gold trade in India that revolves around panning for gold with dirt from the street and mud from drains.
Qnka TIL That Larry David had quit his writing job at SNL midseason, only to show up to work a few days later acting as though nothing had happened.
4Ly6 TIL A South African IT company preferred to use a pigeon to transport a 4GB flash drive over 80 km (50 mi) instead of using the country’s biggest ISP’s ADSL. Including downloading, it took two hours for the data to arrive, the same amount of time it took to tranfer 4% of the data over the ADSL.
N5oM TIL on September 26th, 2011 Mikey Welsh posted on Twitter, “Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today” followed by, “Correction - the weekend after next”. He died October 8th, 2011 from a heart attack in his sleep in a hotel room. In Chicago.
R7e47 TIL a female serial killer in ancient Rome is said to have been "raped by a giraffe" as part of her punishment.