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TIL that in Iceland, if you want to make your own necropants (nábrók), you have to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his death, flay his lower body after he's buried, then steal a coin from a poor widow and place it in the scrotum. The coin will draw money into the scrotum.

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5Ron TIL that in 1970, Bill Murray cracked a joke to another passenger at O'Hare International Airport about carrying a bomb in his suitcase. A ticket agent who overheard the joke summoned the US Marshalls. They didn’t find explosives in the bag, but instead found 10 pounds of weed.
QJRn6 TIL The Office had been originally written for British television in 2003 until the creator Ricky Gervais moved it to the US in 2005 and became the executive producer. Some of the writing is almost identical between the two shows like the stapler in jello scene.
dDLB8 TIL In some U.S. states, like Minnesota and Vermont, walking away from an emergency could get you fined up to $100. Simply calling 911 counts as “help,” and Good Samaritan laws protect those who physically help. However in many other states, you can ignore someone in need without any consequences.
OWng TIL: Wolves being reintroduced into Yellowstone in 1995 caused regrowth of many populations and even saved the rivers from erosion .
egK5 TIL that Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” is cyclical, with the phrase “Isn’t this where…“ ”…we came in?” split in half between the first and last song. When the two songs are spliced together, the complete phrase “Isn’t this where we came in?” forms, proposing that Pink’s story repeats itself