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TIL that the world's largest cemetery is Wadi-us-Salaam ("Valley of Peace") in Najaf, Iraq - it contains tens of millions of bodies over an area of 6 km², and approximately 500,000 new bodies from around the globe are buried there annually

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KOlb6 TIL of Fallen Astronaut - a small aluminum sculpture of an astronaut. The sculpture was authorized to be brought on board Apollo 15, but astronaut David Scott placed it on the moon as a memorial to American and Soviet casualties of their respective space programs.
WXK9 TIL a hidden tributary of London’s river Thames called the Tyburn has a short exposed stretch running through an antiques shop. There are golden fish living in the stream.
DZoY TIL that caribou is simply the North American name for reindeer.
xZ0g Til the word “dude” first appeared in the 19th century to describe young men who were way too engrossed in the task of being fashionable
jNWRp TIL that buttplugs were used to treat headaches, insomnia, bad breath, acne, anemia, anorexia, hemorrhoids in the 1900s