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TIL that Obesity Doubles a Person’s Chances of Suffering from Migraines

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GYBlE TIL that it is not allowed to be buried in Svalbard. Due to the permafrost, the bodies do not decompose, and any viruses or diseases they are carrying are also preserved. If the permafrost melts, the bodies can be pushed out the ground, where it is possible to infect people again.
D1R4D TIL of the Sky Burial. Utilized in areas such Tibet and Mongolia, corpses are left on mountainsides to be eaten by carrion birds or otherwise decompose. Many who practice it view it as more practical than digging graves and as a way to give back to nature
epVYg TIL Friedrich Nietzsche was an amateur composer who even befriended Richard Wagner for a time. Nietzsche's compositions were not especially well received with Wagner being dismissive and the conductor Hans von Bülow calling one work "the most undelightful".
69Nym TIL Funeral homes put spiked contact lenses in to keep your eyes closed after death.
Oopm1 TIL Volkswagen put out an electric car in 1984 called Golf citySTROMer. It had a range of 50 KM and a top speed of around 100 KM/h. Only 100 exemplars were ever produced until production ceased in 1985. Trivia: the word "strom" in German means "current".