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TIL China has Salamanders as large as Humans

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1adGW TIL: Gerard Pique first met his future partner Shakira right before the 2010 FIFA World Cup for the music video "Waka Waka." Pique told her that Spain (his team) would win the World Cup so that he could meet her again when she sang at the final. That year, Spain won their first-ever World Cup.
b6mk9 TIL pants are always plural because it’s a “plural tantum” which is Latin for “plural only,”
x6jJ5 TIL that Japanese actor Bandō Mitsugorō VIII claimed to be immune to fugu kimo, naturally toxic pufferfish liver. He ate 4 portions in a restaurant with his friends in Kyoto and died 8 hours later.
RVb6 TIL that the voice pattern characterizing a subset of gay males, the “gay lisp,” does not appear to be biologically driven, but may instead be related to childhood gender nonconformity.
loBka TIL that only female Anglerfish have lures and actively look for food. The males are tiny and pale and spend their entire life finding and fusing to female Anglers, where they begin to degenerate until they are little more than a pair of gonads providing sperm to the female on her command.