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TIL: Obese people's cremations can cause grease fires...

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V9GZ TIL that James May (ex-TopGear, The Grand Tour presenter and motoring journalist) was fired from Autocar magazine because he hid a secret message while getting bored of editing their annual review.
6EKxm TIL about the bristol stool chart. A 7 pronged classification system for poop developed by Dr KW Heaton in 1997, formerly Reader in Medicine at the University of Bristol.
1awW4 TIL that in 1982, a man died while vandalizing a saguaro cactus for fun. He shot the cactus repetitively and then went up to poke it to try to get it to fall over. Instead, the 500-pound saguaro arm fell and killed him.
p866G TIL Dolphins come in just behind humans in brainpower - can demonstrate skills and awareness previously thought to be present only in humans.
kOn1B TIL Welsh actor Johnathan Pryce played an Argentinian-born head of state twice. As Juan Peron in 'Evita' and Pope Francis in 'The Two Popes'.