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TILA This New Burial Technique Turns a Corpse Into a Tiny Pile of Freeze-Dried Fertilizer

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kJ5QW TIL of Roland the Farter, a performer who farted on command for the King and was awarded much land.
WDj8 TIL Dr. Seuss, caught up in anti-Japanese propaganda, made several racist/xenophobic political cartoons. After later visiting Japan and meeting with victims of atomic bombs, he changed his heart and wrote “Horton Hears a Who” and dedicated to his new Japanese friend.
KOWWw TIL that John Allen Chau, an American missionary, was killed in 2018 by the Sentinelese, a self-isolated group of indigenous people who live on North Sentinel Island. When attempting to recover the body, authorities saw tribesmen with bows and arrows on the shore and turned their boat back.
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