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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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6B7l TIL that in Singapore, car buyers must pay for duties and bid for a Certificate of Entitlement, good for a decade. The cost of the Singaporean certificate of entitlement alone would buy a Porsche Boxster in the US
9Yoop TIL psilocybin, the psychoactive chemical in magic mushrooms (psilocybin mushrooms), is being researched as a potential treatment for anxiety and depression in people with cancer diagnoses, for alcohol use disorder, and for migraines and cluster headaches.
NXd68 TIL Greenland's name was made by Erick the Red hoping that the pleasant name would lure other settlers to the island. To some extent, the trick worked because several Vikings from Iceland who were escaping famine managed to establish some settlements in Greenland after a few years.
Mey9m TIL Nazis kidnapped “Aryan-looking” children from across Europe and brought them back to Germany for indoctrination.
pwa8 TIL Toy Story 2 got deleted twice. Once on accident with /bin/rm -r -f *