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TIL about a successful professional fisherman born without legs or hands, and uses no prosthetics (video in comments)

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D1Goj TIL statues of supernatural beings called Yakshas who are traditionally considered the servants of Kubera (the God of wealth) are found at the entrance of the Reserve Bank of India
Egdoo TIL that in 1890 an anticlerical journalist (Leo Taxil) pulled off a 12-year prank to humiliate the Vatican involving: inventing a cult of satanic Freemasons, paying his typist to play the part of a Luciferian Templar Mistress, revealing it all to have been a hoax once the Vatican had endorsed it.
QJAbE TIL Teetotalism is the practice or promotion of complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages. A person who practises and/or advocates teetotalism is called a teetotaler (plural teetotalers) or is simply said to be teetotal.
nexAG TIL The Devil's Cigar is a fungus that strangely only exists in small area of Texas and Japan separated by 11,000 km the two populations have been separated for at least nineteen million years. It looks like a cigar, hisses, releases clouds resembling smoke, then splits open into a flower shape.
b60nj TIL in GTA SA, Big Smoke's famous order includes others' orders, not only his own.