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TIL of "promession", an elaborate decomposition system that takes a body, freezes it, vibrates it to dust, and dehydrates it, to result in the most eco-friendly form of burial ever devised.

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XBVE TIL that a woman driving to Dave Matthews concert stopped to help a stranded cyclist who turned out to be Dave Matthews himself. The woman got front row tickets, backstage access and Dave took her boyfriend and her for dinner
GY6bN TIL: The inventor of the Lava Light, an accountant, originally didn't envision his product associating with groovy psychedelic hippie culture. An ad for them in the straight-laced American Bar Association Journal pitched an "executive" desk version mounted on a walnut base beside a ballpoint pen.
GX9j TIL that you’re never actually touching anything. Your atoms’ electrons repel objects when they’re 10^-8 meters away from you, but you can feel the force of the resistance.
joGR TIL that contrary to popular belief, Blackbeard never killed or tortured those he held captive. Many of the misbeliefs were created by british propaganda and modern movie industry. Source in the last paragraph of the intro
DpKv TIL Bing Crosby’s recording of “White Christmas” was so popular that he had to re-record it in 1947 using the same musicians and backup singers in the 1942 original master because it had become damaged due to its frequent use