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TIL of Sokushinbutsu - the buddhist act of self-mummification, a process which takes up to 10 years, the oldest mummy found is 550 years old

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X0Mw6 TIL that Goldeneye 007 was almost released as a 2D game for Super NES but during its creation, development of the game eventually shifted to the newer Nintendo 64 game console.
W7GM4 TIL that Astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the Gemini III mission in 1965. He offered it to his crewmate mid-flight, but they had to stash it quickly as floating crumbs threatened to interfere with the spacecraft's instruments.
nePK7 TIL about the biggest pizza ever created. It was 13,580 square feet and made in Rome, Italy, in 2012. The pizza was gluten-free and named “Ottavia” after a roman emperor.
enVL TIL Woodrow Wilson is the only US President with a PhD.
RAg7 TIL when Luxembourg was liberated from nazism in 1944, the returning government was so impressed with some regulations and laws concerning tax and employment the nazis had made, that it decided to simply keep them.