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TIL that there is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the Sun to Pluto and back — 17 times

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7rXB7 TIL after a cremation, you don’t get “ash” back. They take leftover bones and pulverize it into a powder
aWWA TIL that many old churches look as if they have sunk into the ground, when in fact the ground has risen up to 3 feet by centuries’ worth of decomposing bodies in the graveyards.
1lVd TIL that a Chinese businessman is offering poor and destitute Americans 300$ to have lunch with him
j7BR TIL That despite homosexual sex being punishable by death (potentially) in Iran, sex change operations are perfectly legal and often state-funded. Iranians account for the second highest amount of sex changes in the world, behind Thailand.
VMeA0 TIL the most remote settlement on Earth is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, located on the island Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The settlement nearest to it is on Saint Helena, 1350 miles away.