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TIL the Yurok people of Northwestern California burned or destroyed the deceased’s possessions to send their wealth with them into the afterlife.

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8aKlZ TIL Layne Staley was once praised by Swedish police for punching a Nazi in the face on stage.
pY98Z TIL about Washtub, a joint Air Force and FBI stay behind operation that trained Alaskan citizens in espionage, sabotage, and rescue in case of a Soviet invasion. Alaskan natives were disregarded for their supposed questionable allegiance.
Pb5V TIL that there are only 10 modern countries that have never been (in their entirety) a colony of a European empire: Liberia, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, North/South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia.
X01KE TIL that an acronym that cannot be pronounced as a word is not an acronym, it's an initialism. NASA and FIFA are acronyms but USA and FBI are initialisms!
57KP TIL 1961 US had it’s first Nuclear Accident, killing all three operators. One was blown into the ceiling by the force of the blast and impaled there by a reactor rod. They had to be buried like Nuclear Waste. (Idaho)