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Acorns. Bollocks. Boys. Coin purse. Gonads. Knackers. Nut sack. Family jewels.
That’s right, we’re talking testicles.
Here’s 12 fascinating facts you never knew about balls.
1. Meat and two veg
The word avocado derives from the Aztec word for testicle.
2. Ball ache
In the Middle Ages, men who wanted sons would sometimes have their left testicle chopped off because they thought the right testicle made male sperm, and the left made female.
3. Hand on part
Testicle derives from the Latin word testis, meaning ‘witness’.
In pre-biblical times men sometimes placed their hand on another man’s testicles when swearing an oath, because the testicles gave witness to a man’s virility.
And, in Roman times, men placed their right hand on their balls before giving testimony in… Read the full story
