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TIL that a man’s dominant hand is the opposite side of his lower hanging testicle

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GYK14 TIL that the depictions of the mafia in The Sopranos were so accurate, that real members thought that they were being spied on. These conversations were overheard, when the FBI were indeed spying on them.
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