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TIL; Pill bugs are not ‘bugs’ at all. They are land-dwelling crustaceans.

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4k0m6 TIL Tibetan monks practice chöd, a ritual involving meditation in haunted places and visualizing offering their own bodies to spirits as a feast. They spend nights in graveyards, aiming to dissolve ego, confront mortality, and transcend fear, achieving compassion and detachment by embracing death.
pYrwA TIL that there were 26 Children and 36 Spouses of Spanish-American War veterans still receiving VA benefits or pensions as of 2021. The war happened nearly 125 years ago.
WepX TIL Tommy Chong ended up being Jordan Belfort’s cellmate and encouraged him to write down his life into The Wolf of Wall Street,
6EEww TIL there is a 50 square mile "Zone of Death" in Yellowstone National Park that people can get away with murdering due to a legal loophole
Wk5eL TIL That a lot off common weeds along hiking trails and in gardens can be eaten and used. One of them being Ground Elder that is treated as the villain in many gardens.