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TIL that 80 % of all cars in Kabul (Afghanistan) are Toyota Corollas

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J1blQ TIL Ringo Starr and John Lennon tried to move to Texas as teenagers
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b9va7 TIL that deceased Tibetan Buddhists are given a “sky burial” in which the body is folded in half, walked to the burial site on someone’s back, and then dismembered and fed to vultures. There is no wood for a cremation, and the ground is too hard to dig due to the high altitude they live in.
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