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TIL Two guys used their dead friends ashes as fishing bait and caught the worlds biggest Carp.

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wLJxM TIL David E. Durston, the director of 'I Drink Your Blood' and 'Manhole' is associated with two suspicious deaths. Durston had a fight with actress Carol Wayne, 3 days later she was found dead by fishermen. Durston visited actress Diane Linkletter at 3am, she jumped out a 6th story window at 9am.
8a51L TIL that the name "Idaho" is not a Native American word, but a completely made-up word that George M. Willing coined after meeting a little girl named "Ida."
wLA7E TIL on Halloween 1992, a BBC mock documentary "Ghostwatch" was mistaken for a real one amongst most of its 11 million UK viewers (receiving 20,000 complaints about its scary content), and was never broadcast again after that experience
LQLav TIL that The Mexican communist party was founded by an Indian activist M N Roy. However post WW-II, Roy lost his faith in traditional Marxism and adopted something known as the radical humanism which is a blend of socialism and liberalism.
9wlVG TIL that even though Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had married and divorced TWICE, she still considered him the love of his life. He must of felt the same way because days before his death he sent her a letter asking for a reconciliation. 24 years later she was buried with the letter.