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TIL that Japanese monks known as the Sokushinbutsu caused their own deaths through self-mummification, which they thought of as a form of enlightenment.

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leNV TIL Paul Revere was a dentist. A silversmith by trade, he learned the trade to make ends meet when he was poor. He used to be able to identify fallen soldiers by their dental work he’d crafted. He’s recognized as the first forensic dentist.
GQLj TIL John Couch Adams calculated the existence of Neptune, using mathematics, before the planet was ever observed.
loQyG TIL The phrase et cetera (“and so forth”), commonly written as etc., is also properly abbreviated "&c". — representing the combination et + c(etera).
KYONG TIL the most expensive religious text ever sold was an handwritten printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon. It was sold for $35 million in 2017
ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.