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TIL since funeral homes don’t have to reveal their prices online, funeral homes are marking up cremations by 1000% to unknowing customers.

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6B0X TIL a man named Alcibiades was an important Athenian general, had to flee Athens and became an important Spartan general, had to flee Sparta and became an important Persian court adviser, and then was elected an Athenian general
VBwQ TIL Danny Elfman (composers of such film scores as Alice in Wonderland, Beetlejuice, and the original Spiderman Trilogy) was actually Jack’s singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas. You go Danny.
GKx7 TIL that Quentin Tarantino got the inspiration to use manga comics to portray the gruesome violence in Kill Bill from Indian filmmaker Kamal haasan
j64YM TIL that ITER is the nuclear fusion research project aimed to create energy through a fusion process similar to that of the Sun. Creating an artificial Sun, hoping to generate electricity has already been described as the most expensive science experiment of all time.
GAxE TIL there is an Android app called Got Cash? that costs £100 or $200 that doesn’t do anything except show that you can afford it.