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TIL About Jazz Funerals, a New Orleans tradition in which a person is “buried with music” by a brass band and other musicians in a procession to their grave. “Second Liners”- people who dance to the music in all styles, accompany the music players to bury the person with respect.

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9YV4p TIL Great Britain sold much of their American investments, and borrowed currency from Wall Street and the American government for the war effort in World War 1 (WWI). In 1931, 4.4 billion USD was still owed. The last payment on that debt was made nearly a century after the war's end, in 2015.
dD9R8 TIL there is an extremely rare condition, 'demon face syndrome,' in which people to see faces as distorted, horrific, drooped, or stretched. “It’s like staring at demons. Imagine waking up one morning and suddenly everybody in the world looks like a creature in a horror movie.”
75WM TIL the fastest man made object that’s ever moved was an iron manhole cover, which traveled at five times the earth’s escape velocity at 0.02% the speed of light
lobm1 TIL of the Mountjoy prison escape in Ireland where three IRA men escaped the prison in a hijacked helicopter
KOvgE TIL pedestrianism was the biggest sport in America before the rise of modern spectator sports