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TIL in 2010, Japanese welfare officials went to check on a 111-year old man, the family refused to let them see him. Returning with police, they found his mummified corpse still wearing pajamas. The man had died in 1980, but the family hid his death so they could continue to collect his pension.

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0delN TIL that ice cave was coined by Edwin Swift Balch in 1900, and the three main temperature mechanisms are cold traps, permafrost and evaporative cooling. These mechanisms finally result in the cave temperature being colder than surface and then ice cave is formed.
vG9B TIL 61 percent of women in rural China hide incidents of extreme domestic abuse or seek treatment under fake names. The country has no national law to protect women from abuse.
4XKAb TIL an Assistant US Attorney focusing on sex predators was found in his car hundreds of miles away with 36 stab wounds including on his back and scrotum. In the blood there was an unidentified fingerprint. FBI ruled it suicide.
9wd5m TIL: In Sweden there’s a tradition to watch a Donald Duck’s Christmas special since 1959
WRn4 TIL in 1897, a man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife solely based on the testimony of his wife’s ghost who visited her mother in the night and detailed the crime.