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TIL The town of Crestone, Colorado is the only place in the United States that allows burial on a pyre.

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eYbL TIL the day after Thanksgiving is called “Brown Friday” by septic companies as it is their busiest day of the year
e0gNE TIL that the city of Savage, Minnesota, used to have a “Taj Mahal” which was actually a set of stables constructed as a home for world-famous racehorse Dan Patch.
xVgDB TIL of Richard Colvin Cox, “the only West Point cadet to have disappeared without a trace”.
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