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TIL an English man, Darren Hickey, died after eating a scolding hot fishcake at a wedding - He suffered injuries to his throat similar to those who die of smoke inhalation in house fires.

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OKG4 TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup, Benfica coach Béla Guttmann asked for a pay rise. When denied, he allegedly cursed the club and said: “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached 8 European Cup finals and lost all of them.
VM614 TIL in 1911, a journalist named Ambrose Bierce wrote the Devil's Dictionary which re-defines common words with a touch of sarcasm and satire.
apb0 TIL you can pay $80,000 to be guided to the top of Mount Everest, even if you have no climbing experience at all.
yA9p TIL after a four-year-old was mailed from her parents to her grandparents, the mailing of people was prohibited by the US Postal Service.
JYlM1 TIL in WW2 a female feudal lord took control over 275 Nazis to force them to fix up her island after German occupation ended in Sark