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TIL that in Greece since there is so little available land, graves are only "leased" and people are buried for 3 years and then their families dig up their bones and another person is buried in the same grave.

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rgVW TIL that the once-thought useless human appendix has evolved at least 29 times, and been lost a maximum of 12 times–but evolution keeps bringing it back, possibly due to it having an important role in immune function.
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