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TIL people used to grind human bones into flour to make 'bone bread'

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VMnPm TIL Tesla's space travelling Roadster passed Mars, Mercury and Venus in 2018. It's estimated that the Roadster will continue in its elliptical orbit until coming close enough to Earth in 2091 to be seeable by a telescope. It might then crash into Earth millions of years in the future.
6j48 TIL that India is the only country that uses m.r.p.(Maximum Retail Price) system to fix a maximum price for products and commodities and a product cannot be sold for a price above its m.r.p.
epDkJ TIL that Hermione was based on J.K. Rowling: the author loosely based the character on herself when she was 11 years old, and chose an otter as Hermione's patronus as it's her favourite animal. She also took the name from Shakespeare's The Winter’s Tale and didn't want a popular name
Lkpop TIL Japan refuses to recognize its WW2 military atrocities. Instead, they argue it was a war to "liberate" Asian countries from Western imperialism. Even the educational curriculum censors and downplays Japanese war crimes.
e9x4 TIL That NY City used to use hollowed out trees as water mains in the early 19th Century. A working example was still connected to the city water lines as late as 2006