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TIL that bodies left in wet, cold conditions (often large bodies of water) go through a process of saponification, and fat deposits turn into soap.

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PmZE TIL That Tommy Chong and Jordan Belfort were cell mates while serving time in jail, and Chong encourage him to write his book, “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
v1M94 TIL that two giant birds attacked and tried to pick up a child in Lawndale, Illinois in 1977. The birds were never identified.
9wkDr TIL: The top (summit) of Mt Everest is grey limestone, complete with embedded marine invertebrate fossils (e.g. trilobites). This means that the rock that makes up the top Mt Everest was once underwater.
x6ej7 TIL in 1965 U.S. Patent was issued for the "Blonsky Device" It was a centrifugal birthing table. A woman in labor was strapped to a high speed spinning table that would "gently force the baby out."
KY609 TIL that there was a 4th Crusade to retake Jerusalem. However, the crusaders got sidetracked and ended up sacking Constantinople, capital of the Christian controlled Byzantine Empire, and they ended up getting excommunicated.