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TIL, there's a temple in India where people worship Rats

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rReX4 TIL Terri Schiavo, the center of a famous right-to-die case, has three dates on her headstone: Born, Departed (the day she went into a vegetative state in 1990), and At Rest (the day she died after her feeding tube was removed in 2005)
1P64 TIL that despite 2.5 to 4 percent of modern human DNA coming from Neanderthals, there are no known Y-chromosome genes from them. One hypothesis: modern human women’s immune system spontaneously aborted male fetuses carrying Neanderthal H-Y genes
oReeR TIL that after five divers became trapped in a Paria Fuel Trading Company oil pipeline, when making repairs to the pipe, with only one of them surviving, Paria admitted they had no rescue plan, citing that they had 'no legal responsibility to rescue the men'
ANZKx TIL of the ship MS Hans Hedtoft which hit an iceberg in January 1959. After sending urgent SOS messages, the ship then sunk in a matter of hours with all 59 aboard perishing. It is the most recent ship to have been sunk with casualties by an iceberg.
RxrQ TIL marshmallows were originally made from the root of the marsh mallow plant. Now the strange name makes sense.