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TIL Crazy Train

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a8rQb TIL India once released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges to eat the remains of corpses buried in the river after incomplete burning. The locals ate the turtles.
R5Kn8 TIL F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen nearly bankrupted the Lotus team by being too good. His contract said that he would be awarded €50,000 for every championship point scored. Lotus thought their car would be so uncompetitive that year that it would not be a problem. Kimi went on to score 207 points.
OoZ11 TIL that only 9% of all plastic waste ever produced has been recycled.
JYWev TIL of the four original members of The Killers, only three still write and compose new music, and only two still actively tour. (However, all four remain official members of the band.)
X0Vv8 TIL King Tut's knife was made from meteorite iron.