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TIL Washington state will be the first state to allow human composting as a form of burial on May 1, 2020.

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9P5B TIL it would cost about $30 billion a year to eradicate world hunger, about as much as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.
e0WXJ TIL in order to improve speech-to-text, many 'private' Alexa conversations are being listened to by real people. An investigation found that these employees have group chats where they share recordings they find funny.
4k64N TIL there is a name for the frustration caused by difficult-to-open packaging called Wrap rage, which is perfectly named.
avdA TIL Abe Lincoln once threw a man by the “neck and seat of his pants” for attacking a supporter during his first speech for Illinois General Assembly.
oBrVr TIL in 2013, a photographer recorded seventeen seconds of footage of an elusive night parrot—a Lazarus species that hadn't been spotted in nearly a century. A bird expert called it "the bird-watching equivalent of finding Elvis flipping burgers in an outback roadhouse."