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TIL there are 16 times more people buried in the Earth than walking on it. Yikes

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GYopG TIL Carl Tanzler, German radiographer, dug up a patient he had been obsessing over and lived with the corpse for seven years. During those years, he fitted the face with glass eyes, replaced the skin with wax, used loads of perfume on the body and even installed a Paper tube to allow for intercourse
a8YOA TIL of RAS syndrome, the act of appending a word to the end of an abbreviated term that already exists at the tail of it. e.g. ATM (automated teller machine) machine, PIN (personal identification number) number and amusingly, RAS (redundant acronym syndrome) syndrome
5Y09p TIL the click/snap sound when you click/snap your fingers comes from your middle finger hitting your palm with force
WrEd TIL more Mexican immigrants (1,000,000 people) have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated to the U.S. (870,000 people) since the end of the Great Recession
j6ynX TIL in Iraq in 2012 over 14 teens were stoned to death for being emo