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TIL unlike most Buddhist monks, the Dalai Lama is a meat eater. In the 1960s, he tried being vegetarian for a bit but had to give it up after he got sick with hepatitis

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VB6WQ TIL about Hanatarash, a Japanese noise band that used power tools, drills, and heavy machinery as their instruments. In 1985, at one of their shows, the frontman Yamantaka Eye drove through the back wall of the venue with an excavator and proceeded to throw a molotov cocktail at the wreckage.
KZ6G TIL the town of Singapore, Michigan, was eroded into ruins and covered in sand after the area was deforested for lumber to rebuild Chicago following the great fire of 1871
89K TIL in 2009, a Swiss-made watch was found in a 400-year-old Chinese tomb.
644W TIL That in 1967, medical researchers at a Vermont state prison conducted an experiment where they had inmates gain up to 25% of their body weight in return for early release. For some of the volunteers, it was impossible to reach their target weights, despite eating up to 10,000 calories a day.
Y77rW TIL the first supersonic airliner was not the Concorde or Tu-144, but a DC-8. During a test flight in 1961 it achieved supersonic speed for 16 seconds while in a dive. Accompanying the airliner in a chase plane was Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier.