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TIL India once released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges to eat the remains of corpses buried in the river after incomplete burning. The locals ate the turtles.

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m4Do TIL Beethoven actually intended many of his most famous pieces (including the 5th Symphony) to be played much faster than they are generally always played. So fast, in fact, that many professional orchestras are unable to successfully play them.
56bp TIL the Snickers bar was named after a favourite horse of the Mars family.
69v08 TIL the Apollo 12, 16, and 17 American flags planted on the moon are the only flags left that are only visible from earth using the Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter.
9wOGm TIL Saul Goodman's character (from Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul) was inspired by a real-life attorney Ron Bell, whose ads could, at the time, be found plastered across Albuquerque and airing on its local TV. Similar to Goodman, Bell had his own catchphrase: "Ring the Bell!"
pRxp TIL - Scientists have trained a Petri dish full of neurons from a rat brain to successfully fly a F22 flight simulator.