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TIL the locations of the bodies of various religious leaders are known - including Muhammad, Confucius and a canine tooth of the Buddha

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N7QGN TIL Forty of the world's fifty tallest mountain peaks are in Pakistan.
X0PGj TIL about ball lightning, which are luminescent, spherical objects that can appear and last for over a minute before disappearing either quietly or as an explosion, leaving behind the smell of sulfur. There is no definitive explanation for them.
gng8 TIL all 100 nuclear reactors now operating in the U.S. were built on or before 1977
1WE8 TIL during the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, 9 Soviet scientists died of starvation while protecting the world’s largest seed bank, refusing to eat what they saw as their country’s future.
kOr41 TIL the reason cows are considered too sacred to eat in India is because historically a cow was more valuable there as a source of milk, labor, and dung than it could ever be as meat, so it'd be dumb to eat them. Over time this turned into a cultural taboo.