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TIL ‘Chum’ is actually fish bait, which are usually fish guts, parts, fluid, bones and blood. Which is why in SpongeBob, nobody eats 'Chum’, because they are non-cannibalistic fish. However, Patrick can eat chum because he’s a starfish. Starfish 'feed on dead fish’.

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