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TIL William Shatner sold his kidney stone for $25,000 to raise money for a housing charity

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Ooax1 TIL that there is a church in the Czech Republic decorated with 40,000-70,000 human skeletons called Sedlec Ossuary.
Gyr7 TIL that Iceland has the oldest existing parliamentary system in the world. It is over 1000 years old.
XEgvR TIL that one widely-accepted theoretical cause of some of the largest mass extinction events in history are mantle plumes. They form over millions of years when magma near the earth's core heats up and rises until it reaches the crust, causing widespread volcanic activity over gigantic areas.
awyNN TIL from the 1960s to 1990s, Pan Am flight attendants were required to be under 130 pounds.
kOe01 TIL that Albania, the only European country with a Muslim majority at the time, had their Jewish population triple during WWII due to a code of honor called 'Besa' where it was an honor to protect those in refuge. Almost no Jews were handed over to the Germans with exception to one family.