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TIL decapitation does not mean instant death.

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KOYr6 TIL that "Ma'nene" is a rare death ritual in Troaja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia where family members remove dead relatives from their graves, dust them off, change their clothes and let them dry in the sun.
xl4g TIL the 1904 Olympic marathon ‘winner’ cheated by using a car, the second place finisher drank brandy mixed with rat poison, another athlete was chased off course by dogs, and another ate a rotten apple during the run.
E1AK7 TIL Getting bit by a Brazilian Wandering Spider can cause “a long, painful erection to human males” due to the venom increasing nitric oxide, a chemical that increases blood flow
0wXmL TIL that an Orca killed a Great White Shark near California’s Farallon Islands in 2000. The smell of the dead shark's carcass caused all nearby great whites to vanish. A great white with a satellite tag in the area was seen to immediately dive to a depth of 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.
9YjQM TIL about Lafayette,a french aristocrat proclaimed to be 'The Hero of Two Worlds.' He fought as a general For America during the American Revolution, then went to France and fought as a General for the People in the French Revolution.