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TIL that Buddhists create sand mandalas only to destroy them, to teach the belief that nothing lasts forever.

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EgJPV TIL Bahia Bakari was 12 years old when the plane she was flying on crashed near Madagascar and sunk in 3900 feet of water. 152 people died, she was the sole survivor.
N4lN TIL Drug-sniffing dogs are wrong more than 50% of the time
0V6R TIL there are only six ingredients in Spam: ham, salt, water, sugar, sodium nitrite and potato starch
ONKX TIL the appendix may not just be vestigial in humans; a 2007 study suggested that appendices serve as safe havens for “good bacteria” when illness flushes other bacteria from the intestines. Afterward, the useful bacteria can quickly repopulate the intestines.
kO8Gm TIL Two-headed snakes struggle to thrive in the wild because the two heads “argue” with each other, thus making them vulnerable to predators