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TIL Italians are growing an outdoor cathedral, its roof & walls made of soaring branches

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oB8gr TIL Joe Rogan and Gerard Way (Lead singer for My Chemical Romance) are cousins.
4XVlN TIL there's a restaurant in New York that doesn't employ chefs; they employ grandmas. Every day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu.
gMxLW TIL There used to be Big 5 accounting companies, the extra being Arthur Andersen. It dissolved due to collapse of Enron when Enron filed for biggest bankruptcy in the history of USA. Accenture, is the business and technology consulting division of Arthur Andersen.
ZpMKD TIL the Toraja people of Indonesia perform "Ma'nene", an annual ritual where the embalmed corpses of family members are removed from their tombs, groomed, dressed in new clothing, and treated as though they are still among the living. Torajans refer to the deceased as "sick", and only bury years on.
preb TIL that not only has there never been a better rocket than the Saturn V (built in 1967), but that today’s engineers can’t even recreate it.