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TIL: Some people can hear their eyes move

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EgnrV TIL a group of folks in New Guinea used to not want worms consuming the remains of their deceased loved ones and so decided to eat the bodies themselves. They removed the brain, mixed it with ferns, and cooked it in bamboo tubes. They ate everything at the funerals except the gall bladders
8GyG TIL that by 2008, Top Gear had gotten so popular that the waiting list for tickets for a recording had more than 300,000 names. Or 21 years worth of episodes
Ja5V TIL 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
NGr1 TIL that Iran has an import ban on 75 so-called western luxury products, including toilet paper. The result is a huge black market in smuggled loo roll.
L9gm TIL in 2008 the entire nation of Japan had 11 total firearm related homicides