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TIL of the 2001 Nepalese royal massacre, where Crown Prince Dipendra shot and killed 10 members of the royal family, including the King

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dDjL7 TIL about Precordial catch syndrome, a phenomenon in which you get sporadic stabbing pains in the chest, which is harmless
yADv TIL that not everyone buries or cremates their dead. Zoroastrians built open roofed towers to house the bodies of the dead called “Towers of Silence”. These towers were open to carrion birds so that the corpses could be consumed.
D1DYJ TIL that the person considered the most successful pirate in history is a woman
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