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TIL Caucasia is a real place, not just a joke my friends and I make about white people.

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b9DLj TIL instant coffee pods are ruining the environment because they’re not recyclable. And it’s all due to the company themselves.
0nN5 TIL of the state Buddhist monks call “Tukdam” which happens when a monk dies during deep meditation and his body stays uncannily preserved in meditative posture for hundreds of years.
ADoBx TIL that thread is measured in lengths called Lea (120 yds/110 m), Hank (a length of 7 leas) and Spyndle (14,400 yards/13,200 m), and Thread (54 inches/1.4 inches). Denier refers to the weight (in g) of 9000 m of thread. A single thread of silk 9000 m long weighs about a g, so it's 1 denier.
0dwGj TIL In Baby Driver (2017), a security guard was played by Joe Loya, an ex-convict that got jailed for robbing 30 to 40 banks, who worked on the movie as a technical adviser. He also worked closely on the script with director Edgar Wright.
VMeZ8 TIL in the Indian city of Gwalior, you can get a gun license by donating a few blankets to cows