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TIL “well stretched” chicken anuses where used as an indigenous treatment for rattlesnake bites (1928)

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M7ywW TIL that Miss World (GBR) and Miss Universe (USA) fight against humanitarian crises, Miss International (JPN) fights for feminism and inner strength, Miss Earth (PHL) fights for environmental and climate protection.
b9va7 TIL that deceased Tibetan Buddhists are given a “sky burial” in which the body is folded in half, walked to the burial site on someone’s back, and then dismembered and fed to vultures. There is no wood for a cremation, and the ground is too hard to dig due to the high altitude they live in.
MeMl8 TIL Elderly people in Japan are getting arrested on purpose because they want to go to prison
4K6o TIL Lego Minifigures will outnumber humans by the year 2019.
R7vX9 TIL In March 2006 a man purchased an authentic official copy of the Declaration of Independence, one of 200 “official copies” commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820, for $2.48 at a Nashville, TN thrift shop. It later sold for $477,650 at auction.