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TIL that there is an annual World Dog Surfing Championships

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XlYD TIL Parsi/Parsee followers feed their dead to vultures in a place called Tower of silence & the family has to stay in the tower of silence for 4 days.No one else is allowed to enter and the rituals are quite secret.
M7roV TIL of the Wilhelm scream. The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect that has been used in a number of films and TV series, beginning in 1951 with the film Distant Drums. The scream is usually used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion.
xg1D TIL that the Vatican is the only country in the world where women can’t vote
d8Q0r TIL sugar has at least 56 different names.
yVZAM TIL The Patriotic War of 1812 between Russia and France started just 6 days after, and completely independently, of The War of 1812 between the US and the UK