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TIL Cemeteries historically have been segregated

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Ag7l TIL that “Fugu”, the Japanese delicacy made from the blowfish, is 200 times more poisonous than cyanide, chefs require a license to cut and serve Fugu, and there have been 23 reported fatalities in Japan since 2000 from eating poorly cut Fugu.
8ebDb TIL James Cameron pitched the sequel to Ridley Scott's "Alien" by walking straight to a whiteboard, writing "Alien" on it, adding an "s" to it to write "Aliens," and then added two vertical lines to the "s" to transform it into "Alien$."
GYZx4 TIL a man figured out how to hack the lottery in 4 different countries, and won 14 different times, and he got away with it.
Vg1Z TIL I learned that a young twenty-something year old CEO took over a $9M company, fired 2/3rd of all managers and gave the power to the employees. Now it has a turnover of over $200m.
NX516 TIL On May 3, 2008 Estonian activists organized themselves as an ad hoc community to clean up the country's 10,000 tons of waste in a single day! This is a shining example of the power of community action.