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TIL about the game, where you lose if you think about 'the game' and you must announce you lost the game

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JGL4 TIL German archaeologists at Herxheim discovered 7,000 y/o mass graves containing at least 500 people who were ritually butchered and eaten by an unknown cannibalistic culture as part of a “…standard, repetitive, and strongly ritualised practice.”
wJro TIL: Sitting over 11 hours a day results in a 40% higher chance of dying from any cause.
rBl4 TIL Elmo is the only nonhuman to testify before the US Congress
e0VwD TIL The longest taxi journey was a 13month long roadtrip around the world. They travelled across four continents and 50 different countries in a black cab. The journey cost 100 000$
9RgB TIL the waste produced by coal power plants is more radioactive than that generated by nuclear power plants