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TIL a woman hung herself in front of several houses, went unreported for several hours due to many thinking it was a Halloween decoration.

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Dklg TIL whalers had an agreement called “The Law of the Tongue” with a pod of killer whales, where the killer whales herded Baleen whales in exchange for tongues and lips. The leader of the pod was believed to be 80 years old when he died.
AmdB TIL: Wim Hoff also knows as the Iceman ran a full marathon in the Namib Desert without water, climbed Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts and shoes, and can control his immune system and heal himself. Hoff states that any human is able to do the same.
8BX8 TIL in the German dub of Die Hard, the names of the German terrorists were changed to English names.
v1paK TIL that a company in China has been building a true-to-scale replica of the Titanic for use as a tourist attraction. The interesting part is that the finished attraction will include a "hit the iceberg experience"...an audio/visual simulation of the Titanic's iceberg collision.
5Yb19 TIL that more than 30% of Indonesian children smoke a cigarette before the age of 10, thanks to Big Tobacco deliberately targeting youth in developing countries