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TIL Pine bark bread is high nutrient, low calorie famine food.

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b9va7 TIL that deceased Tibetan Buddhists are given a “sky burial” in which the body is folded in half, walked to the burial site on someone’s back, and then dismembered and fed to vultures. There is no wood for a cremation, and the ground is too hard to dig due to the high altitude they live in.
d8EO8 TIL 15 years after having been shot and left for dead during a forced march to a concentration camp, physicist Bruno Touschek initiated and drove the development of AdA -- the world's first antimatter storage ring.
R5Lw4 TIL of "Belle Chase John Doe", an unidentified 17-year-old suicide victim whose note requested that the police make no attempt to identify him. All records and information on the case was lost during a hurricane.
XE4nj TIL Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the term god has no coherent and unambiguous definition and/or that every other theological position assumes too much about the concept of god and many other theological concepts.
J1p0k TIL that The Island of the Dolls, located in Mexico, is filled with antique dolls. While it's accessible by gondola-like boats, most rowers are willing to transport people to the island, but there are those who refuse out of superstition.