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GYkk5 TIL that to prevent illegal fly posters, a local council in the UK stuck their own "CANCELLED" posters over the top of ones for events. Cleaning staff had been removing up to 100 illegal posters per week. Eight weeks after the initiative was introduced this was reduced to zero.
JNY1 TIL there’s a food in China called ‘virgin boy eggs’ which are eggs soaked in the urine of school aged boys.
BPRe TIL Bruce Campbell had to listen to Macho Man Randy Savage having loud sex between breaks on the set of Spiderman
e0mLE TIL that the Code of Hammurabi, while notorious for its eye for an eye punishments and the removal of body parts of the guilty party, was also one of the earliest pieces of written law to have it a requirement for an innocent person to be assumed innocent until proven guilty