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TIL that some sects of Buddhism start mummifying their most venerated monks BEFORE death.

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60JZ TIL that In Kazakhstan, the children’s TV show the Teletubbies was banned by personal order of the president on the grounds that Tinky Winky “was a sexual pervert"
4XeG6 TIL that “Idaho” was not a Native American word as originally thought but rather a made-up word. “To his horror, he found that he had been the victim of a practical joke. [He]learned, to his surprise, that the name did not mean, "gem of the mountains"...In fact, it did not mean anything at all.”
69Yxm TIL the Georgian word for "Father" is pronounced similar to the English "Mama"
Bg14d TIL Alligators Are Native to Oklahoma
9YrlD TIL that the great age of Caribbean piracy began in 1522 when French corsair Jean Fleury captured two Spanish ships on their way back to Spain from the new world, plundering more than $30 million worth of Aztec gold.