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TIL Bob Marley was buried with his red Gibson guitar, a bible opened to Psalm 23, and bud of marijuana

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mpGM TIL Herodotus wrote about fuzzy, dog sized ants living in India which dug up gold to build ant hills. For centuries, people assumed it was made up. In the 1990s, scientist discovered a fuzzy marmot living in India that digs up gold whenever it burrows.
OGo1 TIL the the Guardian does not have the rights to broadcast the Olympics, so they recreate it, brick by brick, with legos.
WJ9d TIL that Ancient Egyptians believed the universe was formed by the god Atum masturbating, and that the flow of the Nile was controlled by the frequency of which Atum masturbated.
4NEX TIL that Ian Stevenson, psychiatrist and re-incarnation researcher, left a combination lock in a filing cabinet in the 1960s, with the hope of passing on the code after his death (in February, 2007). As of February, 2007, it remains unopened.
nP7 TIL the character of Peter Pan was based off of the author of the books’ older brother who died in an ice skating accident the day before his 14th birthday; and thus always remained a young boy in the eyes of his family.