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TIL dying is illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway because the town’s small graveyard stopped accepting bodies after discovering the permafrost prevented the bodies from decomposing.

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4Xm9b TIL about Cremora Tart, a South African no bake dessert made with powdered non-dairy coffee creamer.
rJl4 TIL that selling stolen artifacts is the 3rd most profitable wing of the black market, after drugs and weapons.
Lkr6d TIL - Eberhard and Tarpenning were the original founders and incorporated Tesla, while Musk, Straubel and Wright joined in a Series A round later on. A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five to call themselves founders.
6Ewom TIL that birds can 'see' magnetic fields
D1pDe TIL that the higher concentration of dams/reservoirs in the northern hemisphere have caused the earth to spin faster on it's axis. As humans we hold more water in reservoirs than there is in all the rivers combined.