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TIL about Testicle Festivals where the featured activity is the consumption of various animal testicles.

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b9waE TIL: A US businessman in dispute with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) paid his $3,000 tax bill using five wheelbarrows containing 300,000 coins.
jN6VN It depends on who you are and where you live. Humans thrive in Kuwait City, where average highs top 110° for several months a year. But extended runs of hot days and warm nights do lead to spikes in mortality, and climatologists expect an increasing number of heat waves in years to come.
GY7wQ TIL the World Sauna Championships were held annually in Finland from 1999 until 2010. Contestants would start in tempartures above the boiling point of water and whoever could endure the longest would win. The competition folded after a contestant died when he effectively cooked himself inside.
9wNmr TIL that Body Dysmorphic Disorder has been historically diagnosed, one case including the ‘Wolf Man’ (1886-1979) who was so preoccupied with his nose, and believed that it was so ugly that he avoided all public life and work.
e0by5 TIL: A fortune cookie company once foretold the lottery, resulting in 110 winners