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TIL that Polish coffin company, Lindner, has had a "sexy" coffin calendar since 2010 [NSFW]

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okJE TIL actor Danny Trejo pointedly does not do his own stunts saying “I don’t want to risk 80 people’s jobs just so I can say I have big nuts.”
69NdQ TIL: the sports rating system ELO, most seen in competitive chess, isn't an acronym but the last name of it's inventor, the Hungarian Arpad Elo (1903-1992). He came up with a more fair rating based on the then current one. Other sports use it well, often with minor tweaks and naming.
ova8 TIL Billy Mays would only sell products that passed his test, that worked and that he himself used at home.
xVZDk TIL that in rural areas of late 19th & early 20th century America, it was the norm for the sheriff’s family residence and the jail to share adjacent spaces
1PvO TIL about the Zomba Prison Project, a music recording made by inmates of a maximum security prison in Malawi known as the “ waiting room of hell. ” The completed album has 20 songs by 16 prisoners and was nominated for the Best World Music Album in 2016.