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TIL More than 100 people die annually from puffer fish poisoning.

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Q7NL TIL that papercuts hurt so much because the cut often bleeds very little or not at all, leaving the skins pain receptors open to the air.
a8jpJ TIL when a pope dies, the cardinal camerlengo confirms the death by gently tapping the pope's head thrice with a silver hammer, calling his birth name each time. He then retrieves the Ring of the Fisherman and cuts it in two. The pope's seals are defaced, and his personal apartment is sealed.
JxMl TIL that when someone needs a kidney transplant, the old kidney is usually left in there, and the new one is put lower in the pelvic area.
VMxpk TIL: Entering a radius of 5 nautical miles around North Sentinel Island is illegal under Indian law. In Jan 2006, 2 Indian fishermen were fishing in prohibited waters and were killed by the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have repeatedly attacked approaching vessels.
R7ZX9 TIL that farmers in India used to catch monkeys by putting peanuts in coconuts and walking up to them. The holes in the coconut had to be big enough to allow them to slip their hands inside and small enough so that when they grabbed the peanuts and formed a fist they couldn't take their hands out.