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TIL: Though uncommon, some peoples used entire bird carcasses, with wicks pulled through from anus to mouth, as candles.

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VMwQG TIL on the Korean island of Jeju there is a community of women divers (Haenyeo) who carry on a centuries old tradition of free diving for seafood delicacies. Now declining in numbers due to commercial fishing, most Haenyeo today are between 60-80 years old and have been diving over 50 years.
16JM8 TIL about Otesánek, a 19th century Czech fairy tale in which a childless couple finds a tree stump that resembles a baby. The baby comes to life, but has an insatiable and destructive appetite.
Z8DEY TIL that because of their tendency to take the form of whatever container they're in, a study was conducted over whether cats should be classified as liquids or solids. It later won the Ig Noble Prize.
RQ0w TIL - If you open up a cocoon, you would not find a butterfly caterpillar hybrid. You would find butterfly goo. A caterpillar completely digests and rebuilds itself.
wey1 TIL In 2011 Armenia lost internet for five hours after a 75 year old Georgian woman sliced through cables while scavenging for copper.