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TIL at least 3 Beatles fans committed suicide after Lennon was murdered

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JvyV TIL that the Finnish language has a unit of measurement based on a reindeers urinary habits. Poronkusema
b9r17 TIL there’s a single word for spirits/angels/deities whose job is to escort the dead to the afterlife. “Psychopomp”
nWoZP TIL that the Mr Bean episode Do-It Yourself Mr Bean, features him decapitating a picture of Princess Diana. This scene was deleted, after Diana’s death in a car crash.
E1rvV TIL that the Bicycle playing card company made decks of cards and gave them to the prisoners of war in Germany with hidden escape routes revealed when the cards were soaked in water as Christmas presents.
KB7J TIL that all domestic golden hamsters are descended from one female – probably one captured in 1930 in Syria