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TIL Funerals in Taiwan sometimes feature erotic dancers to attract mourners and assist the transition to the afterlife

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1QEV TIL when Gene Wilder stabbed himself with a scalpel in “Young Frankenstein” it wasn’t in the script; he did it for real and kept going.
GEDN TIL in 1806 Mary Bateman convinced hundreds of people her hen could predict the world’s end. Bateman sold protective wards for a shilling, but was exposed after a doctor caught her shoving handwritten eggs into her hen. Bateman then practiced medicine and was executed for poisoning her patients.
KOal9 TIL given a piece of paper large enough and of average thickness (0.1 mm), if you were able to fold it in half 42 times it would reach the moon
Zpypv TIL there's a percussion instrument called a "Quijada" or "Jawbone" made from the jawbone of cattle that gets its sound from teeth rattling when it's struck
6EAN7 TIL that Canada has a government-sanctioned cartel to control global maple syrup prices and supply, and has been called "the OPEC of the maple syrup world" by The Economist. A barrel of syrup is worth 10-18 times the value of U.S. crude oil.