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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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l7jEK TIL Hoyt Axton wrote the number 1 hit Joy to the World, while his mother Mae wrote the number 1 hit Heartbreak Hotel
OG4J7 TIL that snot becomes yellow when you're sick because of chemicals released by white blood cells that are in the mucus to fight infection; green snot indicates even higher levels of those chemicals
4Xgp5 Over 50 spacecraft (19 landers and 6 rovers have visited the lunar surface) have successfully launched from Earth to fly past, orbit, impact and land on the Moon.
awMEM TIL: Godzilla's roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.
kJ9y4 TIL from 1810 to 1840 tobacco merchant & philanthropist Joseph Williamson funded excavations of an extensive network of tunnels & chasms, the purpose of which is still not fully clear. The tunnels were later used as waste pits until they were "rediscovered" in 1995.