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TIL: fear of food touching another food is called brumotactillophobia

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LRA9 TIL That for the past 60000 years a group of indigenous people has been living in an island, the size of Manhattan, completely isolated from the modern world. They are extremely violent and will kill anyone that dares to come ashore.
8GyG TIL that by 2008, Top Gear had gotten so popular that the waiting list for tickets for a recording had more than 300,000 names. Or 21 years worth of episodes
VMdGQ TIL Polar bears often hunt walruses by simply charging at a group of them and eating the ones that were crushed or wounded in the mass panic to escape. Direct attacks are rare.
78NkM TIL about Rollen Stewart, the "Rainbow Man" known for wearing a rainbow wig and holding "John 3:16" signs at sports games in the '70s and '80s. Eventually he started setting off stink bombs and in 1992, took a maid hostage during a protest. A prosecutor called him "a David Koresh waiting to happen".
QJEge TIL all of Terry Pratchett’s unfinished novels and work have been destroyed by a steamroller following his wishes before he died