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TIL The man who took the most memorable photo of the Loch Ness Monster confessed to it being fake on his deathbed.

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awr8y TIL for Pingu, all the voices in the original series were done by one man; an Italian clown called Carlo Bonomi. He did the voices without a script and helped developed “Penguinese” – the babbling language in the show. He was influenced by a traditional comedic language called Grammelot.
5Yo0n TIL the United States ranked 1st in six out of eight categories in a recent Oct 2019 Global Health Security Index measuring health security. It also ranked 2nd (behind the UK) in terms of rapid epidemic response and mitigation.
EgMgP TIL that women are traditionally prohibited from entering a sumo ring. This tradition is so strictly enforced that in 2018 two women were asked to leave the ring even though they were preforming CPR on a man who collapsed in one.
pYEd4 TIL That ringworm isn't actually a worm but a type of dermatophytes fungi and includes Athlete's foot and Jock Itch as well
l7JNG TIL you are not allowed to feed mealworms to chicken in the UK and it’s punishable by law