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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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GYwe5 TIL that Joseph Kony, made infamous by the Kony 2012 documentary, has still never been captured and at this point is no longer being hunted.
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LQpad TIL when Mike Meaney began his record attempt at being buried alive he neglected to tell his wife about his plan. She found out from listening to the radio. He staged workouts in a pub while in an oversized coffin, ate a diet of steak and cigarettes, and then spent 61 days buried alive