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TIL that a woman died of natural causes and her free-range pet golden hamster scavanged her body to make a nest of her bones, skin and flesh.

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R7N79 TIL the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of unfamiliarity with, or of never having experienced or seen before, something that should be familiar. Presque vu is the feeling of being on the brink of a powerful epiphany, insight, or revelation, without actually achieving the revelation.
neQdW TIL that in two of the 145 instances of homicide recorded in the London eyre court rolls of 1278, two of these resulted over quarrels breaking out after a game of chess.
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