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TIL about the term 'gamaroosh' used by English television personality and necrophiliac Sir Jimmy Savile, meaning going down on corpses to muck about and have oral sex with them.

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l7M4N TIL about Idlirvirissong, a demon taking the form of a clown believed by the Inuit to live in the sky with her dogs. When the recently dead arrive, Idlirvirissong dances and feeds the intestines of those who laugh at the dance to the dogs.
Movm TIL a man pain under $3 at a thrift store for a “fake” copy of the Delcaration of Independence, turns out to be an original. 36th original copy found out of 200, and sold for half a million dollars.
GYo1 TIL In 2007, an unmanned yacht was discoverd drifting off the coast of Australia. The engine was running, a laptop was running, the radio and GPS were working and a meal was set to eat, but the three-man crew were not on board.
jNXXX TIL about Typhoid Mary; a cook identified as a carrier with no symptoms of Typhoid Fever, who infected over 50 people and killed three. She was forcibly quarantined for nearly 30 years.
9L4G TIL: The expiry date on water bottles is when chemicals from the plastic bottle leaks into the water