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TIL Nicholas Cage bought a pyramid-shaped tomb in New Orleans’ oldest cemetery to be his final resting place.

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4XpDb TIL that Arrhichion is the only person to have won an Olympic event while dead. His opponent suffocated him during a game of pankration, essentially a no-holds-barred fight, but didn't realize that he had killed Arrhichion and surrendered due to his injuries.
7r4gP TIL that Lake Malawi (in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique), the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world, is called the "Calendar Lake", because it is 365 miles from top to bottom, 52 miles at its widest point, and 12 main rivers flow into the lake
rRwr1 TIL About Mike Cameron, a kid in 1998 who got suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Day.
xKw TIL there is a species of crabs that can grow larger than humans
X98r TIL that more than 1,000 experts, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, have signed an open letter urging a global ban on AI weapons systems