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TIL that French uses « » as quotation marks instead of " "

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b9va7 TIL that deceased Tibetan Buddhists are given a “sky burial” in which the body is folded in half, walked to the burial site on someone’s back, and then dismembered and fed to vultures. There is no wood for a cremation, and the ground is too hard to dig due to the high altitude they live in.
MXWm TIL A theoretical spacecraft was designed to travel 92% the speed of light, granting humans the ability to travel to different star systems within their lifetimes.
9bjG TIL test audiences for Good Night and Good Luck thought the actor playing McCarthy was too over the top, not realizing that the film used actual archive footage of McCarthy himself.
KOP04 TIL That Paul Stanley of the band Kiss was unable to hear on the right side due to a birth defect. As a kid he found it difficult to determine the direction of a sound, and he could not understand speech in a noisy environment. He was taunted by other children for his deformed ear.
awEy0 TIL When legendary artist Salvador Dali went to a screening of a new surrealist art film in 1936 he became enraged and knocked over the projector half thru claiming the film maker had stolen the idea for the film from Dali's mind. He yelled: "He stole it from my subconscious!"