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TIL Because vinyl was so scarce and expensive in the USSR, bootleggers figured out a way to print records on old discarded X-ray films.

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Bgg8b TIL about Sokushinbutsu, a practice of self-mummification observed by Japanese Buddhist monks. The monks would follow a strict starvation diet until abstaining from eating altogether in order to lose as much body fat and moisture as possible. They would finally be locked in a tomb while still alive.
ADNDB TIL the US was ready to drop a third nuclear bomb on Japan by August 19, 1945. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945.
KKe9 TIL that the estimated life expectancy for HIV Positive people in the US and Canada is actually higher than the average population.
K46B TIL that Texas is so huge that El Paso, in the western corner of the state, is closer to San Diego, California, than it is to Houston, Texas.
RkY8 TIL Darryl Scott has the record for the lowest winning score in the history of Jeopardy, with only one dollar.