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TIL The guy who voiced Reaper from Overwatch is also the voice of bluu form Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.

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xVwKb TIL The Pied Piper Fairy Tale may have been inspired by an actual historical event. Inscription: “on the 26th of June ... 130 children – born in Hamelin – were led out of the town by a piper wearing multicoloured clothes. After passing the Calvary near the Koppenberg they disappeared forever."
1aLed TIL that the female Surinam Toad carry her eggs on her back and her skin grows over the eggs. The eggs hatch and go through the tadpole phase under her skin. They emerge from her skin as fully formed mini toads after 3-4 months.
OG46Y TIL of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster. During a meeting called by Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, the second floor of the cathedral collapsed. 60 German nobles died when they fell through the first floor into the latrine cesspit below. Many died drowning in liquid excrement.
KYpdw TIL Siam occupied Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany after WWI.
xVl1D TIL during the Crosby by-election (UK) in 1981, a 22-year old candidate legally changed his name from John Desmond Lewis to Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel, in homage to a character from a Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch.