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TIL that the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic holds the bones of 40,000–70,000 people, and they’ve been turned into art. We’re talking bone chandeliers (with every type of human bone), garlands of skulls, and bell-shaped bone mounds in every corner.

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kOX7W TIL that there was a failed Yorkshire uprising in 1820 that failed because the uprisers lost their nerve at the last second
QJdPM TIL the term apophenia is the perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. Apophenia can be a normal phenomenon or an abnormal one, as in paranoid schizophrenia when the patient sees ominous patterns where there are none.
9YJlp TIL of the hidden and heavely armed bunker system in the Swiss mountains, big enough for their whole population, anti aircraft missiles and jets. Even turning their highways into runways in a matter of hours.
ADe1o TIL Tobacco companies in India literally target kids by placing adverts at their eye level, not adults.
lJAK TIL That during Spetsnaz training recruits are woken in the middle of the night and thrown into a corridor that is filled knee high with blood and organs. They then have to escape said corridor while being chased by a very angry dog.