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TIL King Charles' funeral plans after Yahoo US revealed he has less than two years to live with pancreatic cancer

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5YEXk TIL There are fossils of marine life found on top of Himalayan mountains.
5VByr TIL Crows hold 'funerals' for fellow crows. Often neighboring crows who didn't know the now deceased crow or even see it die will attend these 'funerals'
ZWD4 TIL there is an “official” unicode anger symbol. It’s ? which represents veins on your forehead when your blood pressure rises.
gMXlX TIL that ‘nickname’ isn’t actually the proper word and it’s actually ‘ekename’. But when saying it to be grammatically correct you say ’an ekename’, then through speech it gradually morphed into ‘a nekename’ (nickname)
nQEW TIL the original Baby Ruth candy company claimed the bar wasn’t named after Babe Ruth so they could avoid paying him royalties. They later shut down a rival candy bar that was actually approved by Ruth to use his name on the grounds the names were too similar.