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TIL: You can "TAKE YOUR SECRET TO THE GRAVE" without dying. A hollow tombstone in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery has a slot for depositing papers bearing secrets. (But at your own risk: the artist who says she'll burn the papers has done "performance art" of reading aloud her own dead mom's diary.)

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0wlNN TIL that it is illegal to sell, manufacture or import chewing gum in Singapore. The law came about in 1992 as a result of vandalism and littering in both high rise public housing apartments and in public transportation systems. In 2004, exceptions were made for nicotine and dental gum.
gM7D8 TIL studies showed that meditation can have a lot of positive effects on the brain, but they depend on the type of meditation. Some helps with multitasking, others reduce stress hormones.
VMW50 TIL that some San Francisco streets are named after Gold Rush-era prostitutes