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TIL Mary Kay Bergman, the woman who voiced Daphne in Scooby-Doo and all the female characters on South Park, committed suicide via shotgun.

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MeOPA TIL in 2009, speakers of Swabian German, a very distinct southern German dialect, voted Muggeseggele (=“scrotum of a housefly”) as the “Most beautiful Swabian word”, well ahead of any other terms. It is used to describe very small units of measure.
1e7P TIL that Polynesian sailors still navigate the oceans using nothing but the stars, the moon, the movement of the waves etc.
yQbvV TIL the designer of the notorious font Comic Sans also designed Trebuchet, one of the most commonly-used fonts on the internet.
JYXjV TIL Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII, her funeral was the first Protestant funeral in England, Scotland or Ireland to be held in English. She is the only royal to be buried in a private residence.
GYKXN TIL that at the end of The Notorious BIG's song "Respect" there is real audio of Biggie getting pleased by a female in the studio.