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TIL a “Pig Toilet” is a human toilet/outhouse connected to a pig sty, providing human feces to the pigs as their food source

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E1WAx TIL the "horned sign" is an ancient hand gesture meant to either ward off, or curse someone with, the "evil eye", or malocchio in Italian. Ronnie James Dio re-popularized the gesture as the "sign of the horns" when he joined Black Sabbath in 1979, having originally learned it from his grandmother.
6ENoQ TIL about David Voelkert, a 38 year-old who befriended a 17 year-old teen on Facebook and told her he wanted to kill his ex-wife. The teen was actually his ex who got him arrested. David was freed after he gave a notorized affidavit to prove he knew all along it was his ex trying to mess with him.
b6Jn9 TIL use of the German flag outside of sporting events is rare due to German flag waving being associated with with Nazi Germany and nationalism
eW5b TIL the more equal a marriage is, the less likely they’ll be having sex. Nsfw
GAlYG TIL the term pub is short for public house