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TIL that Koreans send funeral flowers to celebrities and politicians they don't like.

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rRLJ1 TIL about Margaret Schilling a mental patient who went missing in December 1978. Jan '79 local news reporting her escaped. 5 weeks later, worker finds her body locked alone in a construction area. Her decomp left a stain in the marble of her death pose that endures to today.
4kp55 TIL that the BBC has a Coat of Arms.
mxn0E TIL although the TV show "Friends" ended in 2004, the six main cast members still receive a yearly check of $20 million in royalties alone.
gM017 TIL the sitcom "Married with Children" was originally titled, "Not the Cosbys".
RGvl TIL Musa I of Mali was so wealthy, when he made his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, he had 12,000 slaves who each carried 4 pounds of gold and 80 camels that carried 50-300 pounds of gold. He gave away so much gold to the poor in the areas he visited, it devastated the economy and caused inflation