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TIL that skin creams have contributed to 37 fatal self-incinerations between 2010 and 2017 in England

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Lk8yQ TIL Pigs will eat every part of the human body (including bones) and, if left alone with it for long enough, will fully consume the body.
Ypwdd TIL The Sultana steamboat sank in the Mississippi River, killing upwards of 1400 people (almost as many as the Titanic). Today the wreckage lies 37 feet below a soybean field in Marion, Arkansas.
BxDe TIL that the US seized a wire transfer between Denmark and Germany to pay for Cuban cigars, citing its own trade embargo with Cuba as justification
rNWwM TIL about the Hart Island Project, which is aimed at listing and identifying bodies buried in mass graves at New York City’s mass burial cemetery on Hart Island. Each body has a clock that counts the minutes, hours, days, and years until each body is identified and their story is told.
gwRD TIL For a Japanese reality show a man was challenged to stay in an apartment alone with no clothes and hundreds of magazines to see if he could live off of sweepstakes winnings until he amounted one million yen in value. He was there for 335 days.