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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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jNnAn TIL around 140000 men were convicted under Paragraph 175, a law in German Criminal Code penalising homosexuality that lasted from 1871 to... 1994. Also, "criminals" that were in Nazi camps due to their homosexuality, weren't released from camps after liberation and their "sentence" were still valid.
rRR54 TIL - The original cop from the Village People, who quit in 1979, makes about $1 million a year in royalties for "Y.M.C.A.", is heterosexual and was once married to actress Phylicia Rashad.
VMo0 TIL that a space venture backed by Google and Microsoft founders are planning to mine near-Earth asteroids to extract ice deposits, precious metals and minerals.
w0lM TIL the letter “G” was originally invented by the ancient Romans as a variant of the letter “C”, which was then used to make both “G” and “K” sounds
Oo7Wg TIL there's plastic at the bottom of Mariana Trench almost 11 kms under the ocean level