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TIL the Bios Urn turns the ashes from a person’s cremation into a tree by using them as a nutrient source for a seed

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dZ4r TIL a woman bought a used bible in California, found an essay in it that she wrote when she was a kid…while living in Kentucky.
l7OkN TIL almost every country or culture has their own variation of Meatloaf
ZpPKB TIL Earl L. Brewer, Governor of Mississippi from 1912 to 1916, never once made a public campaign speech while running for Governor in 1911.
W7deA TIL: The Tomb of Christ is a site in Japan where they claim Jesus was really buried. This is complete with a burial site, Hebrew plaque and an accompanying origin story (complete with Jesus using a body double) explaining his journey to and death in Japan.
E1pnX TIL that during the French Revolution the bodies of over 100 French royals were exhumed and tipped into mass graves. Parts of them were also seized; one man took "Dagobert’s jaw, a section of Saint Louis’ skull, the teeth of Henry III, Philippe Auguste’s hair and the leg of Catherine de' Medici".