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TIL that whales are distant relatives of the hippopotamus

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8nO8 TIL Japanese monks mummified themselves while still alive. The practice required the mummifying monk to eat only nuts, buds, and roots for at least three years. When death was near his disciples would put him into a box at the bottom of pit, pack charcoal around the box and bury their master alive.
pL08 TIL that Herodotus gives an account of the Agathyrsi, who lived in Transylvania during the fifth century BC. He described them as a luxurious people who held their wives in common, so all men would be brothers.
e08v6 TIL about a Miner’s egg, a method in which miners would smuggle silver ore out of mines using candle wax, and later “lay” once out of the mine.
vma7 TIL in 1998, the US blamed a hack on Iraq. It turned out it was actually a couple of teenagers.
69mkQ TIL Elvis was an Actual 8th Degree Black Belt in Karate