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TIL The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement exists

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N7VlQ TIL Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That´s why it gets so quite when it snows.
p8N7A TIL of a drug called TGN1412 that went through phase 1 clinical trials. Six men were given the drug and suffered catastrophic effects. Fever, severe pain, vomiting, multiple organ failures, swollen heads and limbs needing to be amputated.
w9JY TIL when David Bowie died his ashes were scattered in Bali in accordance with Buddhist ritual.
d8LjB TIL that Japanese folklore has a large variety of ghosts associated with the bathroom.
dDQ4B TIL In 1946 a U.S. navy PBM Mariner aircraft crashed in Antarctica. The six surviving crewmen were stranded on the ice for 13 days before finally being rescued.