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TIL of Hitobashira, the cultural practice of burying people alive under buildings before construction

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91nM TIL A man in China was dumped by his girlfriend because he was too poor to take her to the movies. Six years later, he booked four IMAX theaters in Beijing for one night and gave away all the tickets for free to prove how rich he is now and to show her what she was missing.
GAG74 TIL About Hyraxes: Fanged African Mammals Resembling Marmots, but which are Far More Closely Related to Elephants and Manatees!
wL89o TIL every example of the type of engine Thomas the Tank Engine was based off of were scrapped in the 60s.
VMnOB TIL that monkeys aren't supposed to eat bananas. The bananas that humans consume are so full of sugar that monkeys will get diabetes if it is a regular part of their diet.
vWVK TIL that scientists discovered an eel had lived inside a shark’s heart in “a facultatively parasitic relationship” in 1997.