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TIL of sky burial, a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop and left to decompose or be eaten by vultures.

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PYaGG TIL straight plastic bag bans implemented in Chicago and Hawaii resulted in many stores just upping the thickness of their plastic bags to 2.25 mils to cross the threshold that separates “single-use” plastic from “reusable” plastic bags under many bag laws.
R7GW4 TIL that after 20 years in a coma, a man was claimed to be aware and suffering from locked-in syndrome. These claims were proven to be a hoax.
WZOB TIL The biggest squid ever caught weighed an estimated 990 pounds and about 39 feet long. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires
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