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TIL that some countries use burial vaults to protect against graves sinking, also known as grave subsidence.

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Egovx TIL, children born in the early to mid-1980s are called "The DuckTales Generation" in Hungary, because their first encounter with politics happened in 1993, when a DuckTales episode they've been waiting for all week was cut short to announce the death of Prime Minister József Antall.
VQk8 TIL New York’s public schools are now more segregated than Mississippi’s.
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