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TIL It’s common for bodies to sit up straight or perform movements during cremation.

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XEQx8 TIL about the massive 123 ft tall Murdeshwar Shiva statue in Karnataka, India which sits on the Arabian Sea
e0rKL TIL that in the 1910s, an encyclopedia company gave away tracts of land in Huntington Beach, California, with every $126 encyclopedia set purchased. Today, the median home price in the area is close to a million dollars.
4kvGb TIL that Mary Anderson invented the first operational windshield wiper but never profited from the invention as her patent expired before it became widely used in the auto industry
a87pN TIL Sweden has a comparable grenade explosions per capita rate to Mexico. Most grenades used are ex-Yugoslavian M75 hand grenades
XEkoR TIL the monarch butterfly’s life span is 2 to 6 weeks, except every 4th generation lives from 6 to 8 months so they can travel all the way down from Canada/USA to Mexico and back