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TIL that people used to live in tree trunks

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mxaBO TIL the directors of Uncut Gems, did not want to cast Kevin Garnett because they were "sick Knick fan, my instinct when I saw Kevin’s name was, ‘I hate him. I don’t want him anywhere near my movie,’". After it did not work out with Kobe Bryant, Joel Embiid and Amare Stoudemire they stuck with KG.
LkVoQ TIL that between the 11th and 19th centuries, Buddhist monks in northern Japan practiced a kind of meditation called Sokushinbutsu, in which they would mummify themselves alive by slowly weaning themselves off food and water before eventually starving to death
0woLy TIL A 3-year-old boy was buried with his tricycle after he was killed in the atomic blast at Hiroshima. The trike is now on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
OGyG7 TIL that the flat iron steak was invented in 1998 by two university researchers who were given a grant by the beef industry to reduce waste and promote beef. By 2012, $80M of flat iron steaks were being sold annually.
vx98 TIL barcode scanners scan the white bars not the black ones