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TIL that "Sky burial" is a practice where bodies are left on mountainsides for scavenger birds or natural decomposition, considered practical in high-altitude areas where the ground is too hard to dig.
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TIL That going postal is an American English slang phrase referring to becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment. The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1986 with the United States Postal Service (USPS).
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TIL that Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual race where participants chase a rolling cheese down a steep 200-yard hill. Falls are common and can cause serious injuries, but people eagerly compete, making it a thrilling yet risky event.
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TIL about Poland's "frankowicze," a group of about 500,000 people who took out mortgages in Swiss francs since the 2000s and faced soaring debts after the franc was unpegged in 2015, leading to significant financial struggles and nationwide protests.
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TIL: British fast success story in short
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TIL Newsweek has not used fact-checkers since 1996.
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TIL that tuberculosis was first brought to the Americas by seals that contracted it on beaches of Africa and carried it across the Atlantic around 1,000 years ago. In South America, it was likely contracted first by hunters who handled contaminated meat.
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TIL that there used to be a President of the Continental Congress.
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TIL Yokozuna, the Iconic Sumo Wrestler, Was Not of Japanese origin.Despite being synonymous with Japanese sumo culture, Yokozuna was actually born Rodney Agatupu Anoaʻi, a Samoan-American wrestler.
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TIL: The professor of psychology at UB ,Sally Farley, found that you can determine relationship status through 1 second snippets of laughter. Friend laughter is louder, more relaxed, and natural. Romantic laughter more feminine-sounding, baby-like, submissive, and less pleasant.
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TIL that Siemens manufactured 69 trains powered by Cummins engines.
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TIL mole Robert Hanssen was caught because a tape the FBI paid $7 million in part to get contained a quote from a Patton speech, "the purple-pissing Japanese", and the agent listening to the tape remembered Hanssen using the same phrase once.