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Oct 13, 2005 22:34

Supposedly this is the origin of the word "testify". It turns out that the Romans, rather than swear on a Bible or Holy Book, would swear on their nuts. Testicles. Testes...Testify? Get it? They would put their hands over their nuts when they did this, apparently. The Romans thought of everything.

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leolapyre October 18 2005, 23:54:11 UTC
Wow- quite the factoid of the day.

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