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TIL that there is restaurant in Beijing that specialises in preparing dishes from the genitals (penises and testicles) of male animals.

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Woao TIL Ice Cube produced a reality TV in 2006 called Black.White., where a black family wore white face and a white family wore black face while living together.
5YQVP TIL mosquitoes fill no significant ecological niche, and if they went extinct there would be few, if any ill effects.
xVWQg TIL grasshoppers & locusts are the same species. Grasshoppers are generally solitary & innocuous, but when overcrowded, a chemical releases in their brain which turns them into a locust — ravenous, horny, and attracted to large groups. Oddly enough, that brain chemical is: Serotonin
grPND Til: The Reason Samuel L. Jackson yells “Motherf---er" is that as a child he had a stutter and this helped keep his speech fluid
N77Ze TIL that alcohol is used in freezer thermometers as it has a lower freezing point than other fluids