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TIL a US Government agency has cataloged and assigned a value to “virtually every item that exists.”

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OXYL TIL 95-year-old Li Xiufeng spent 6 days inside a coffin after her neighbour assumed that she had died in her sleep after failing to wake her up. On the day before her funeral, her neighbors were stunned when they saw that the coffin was empty. Afterwards, they found her in her kitchen cooking.
7rgJp TIL the London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito, which is more aggressive towards humans than its surface-dwelling relative.
8agXP TIL Jason wasn’t planned to appear in the original Friday the 13th screenplay. Makeup designer Tom Savini had the idea to have Jason appear at the end because he had just seen Carrie and thought the movie needed a “chair jumper.”
4XEXX TIL that Bob Drane, founder of Lunchables, won’t even feed them to his own kids.
pYdQQ TIL that Apple stopped making IPods in 2022