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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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X0nrD TIL that "stammer" and "stutter" are both terms that refer to symptoms of the same medical condition. The main difference is that "stammer" is the more common term used in British English, while "stutter" is more common in American English.
Zp58G TIL the island of Camiguin in the Philippines has more volcanoes than towns
w1EJ TIL Stephen Hawking can have a normal more “modernized” voice however he chooses to keep the robotic voice as it is the voice he has come to identify with
e0dj5 TIL of the Broken Wand Ceremony: A ritual performed at the funeral of a magician. The wand which the magician used in performances is broken, indicating that with the their death, the wand has lost its magic. The first broken wand ceremony was held in 1926, after the death of Harry Houdini
WVlB TIL there are giant hornets in Japan whose venom is potent enough to melt human flesh