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TIL Washington state will be the first state to allow human composting as a form of burial on May 1, 2020.

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x6Jn1 TIL The original iPhone (and even the second-gen 3G) couldn't copy/paste.
nempr TIL the inventor the saxophone almost died several times as a child, including falling into a cast iron frying pan and drinking vitriolozed water.
loolr TIL that there is a town in Spain, Corìa del Rio, where there are still descendants of the first Japanese embassy in Europe sent by Date Masamune that decided to remain there because of Christian persecutions in Japan. Their surname is Japón.
epeWn TIL that in 1996, Grant Hill received more All-Star votes than Michael Jordan, even though it was Jordan’s first All-Star game coming back from retirement.
8aLGa TIL during Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, 1991: a french Jaguars unit made a low-pass raid over Al-Jabr in the middle of Iraqi stronghold anti-aircraft fire, one pilot took a bullet on his head, 2 others were hit with reactor on fire, and all came back safe to the base.