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TIL Liquid cremation an alternative to using flame to cremate bodies liquid chemicals heat and pressure are used to basically dissolve the body.

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Lk7b0 TIL that "Pussy willow" is a name given to many of the smaller species of the genus Salix (willows and sallows) when their furry catkins are young in early spring.
YVlZ TIL:While in a fight, an Oklahoma man gave his stepfather an ‘atomic wedgie’, causing death by asphyxiation. When interviewed he said:” Man, I did a horrible thing when I gave him that wedgie.”
oY4A TIL Ball, the maker of the glass mason jars, is making the mirrors for the James Webb telescope and made the optics for Hubble.Also they are one of the biggest defense contractors.
krom TIL Banksy’s New Orleans work is under attack by an anti-graffiti vigilante known only as ‘The Gray Ghost’
9ggp TIL that President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” for being a man of small words. An example of this is part of a story that says that a matron, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, “I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.” He replied, “You lose.”