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TIL A 45 year old Bosnian man named Amir Vehabovic faked his death back in 2007 because he wanted to see who would attend his funeral. Only his mother attended. After this debacle, he wrote dozens of angry letters to his so-called friends and what he thought of their friendship going forward.

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BjJK TIL of Cymothoa exigua, a parasite that consumes the tongue of a fish, attaches itself to the blood supply, and becomes a newly functioning tongue, gorging itself until the host slowly dies of starvation. It’s one of few known parasites that consume and replace a host’s organs.
L88d TIL Billiards is called “Pool” because of horse race poolrooms. In the 1800s betting parlors were called poolrooms, “pool” referring to a collective bet. Billiard tables were installed in poolrooms for people to pass time between races. Eventually the phrase “shooting pool” meant playing billiards.
yDPJ TIL the last person to win a presidential nomination with no political experience was Wendell Lewis Willkie. He lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt by 10%
grE57 TIL about a NASA plan to build a giant telescope with a diameter over 1km in one of the craters on the moon.
Wg1N TIL A UK teenager secretly painted a penis on top of his house, and was caught over a year later when his parents looked at their house on Google Earth.