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TIL there’s a foundation that takes unwanted and lost diaries.

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N7meQ TIL: When you cremated someone, the cremains are not ash but the bones grinded down to dust.
BBpd TIL after 9/11 there was a proposal to “to consider taking Saudi out of Arabia by forcibly seizing control of the oil fields, giving the Hijaz back to the Hashemites, and delegating control of Medina and Mecca to a multinational committee of moderate, non-Wahhabi Muslims”
EmQX TIL the Hairy Ball theorem dictates that, given at least some wind on Earth, there must at all times be a cyclone somewhere.
pYKZ TIL that over 1 billion years of history is missing from the geologic record in the Grand Canyon
4XnrN TIL that the discovery of oil as a fuel was an environmental miracle for whales as it made hunting whales for their oil far less competitive.