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TIL that the “ashes” you get after cremation is crushed bone, as the rest of the body (organic matter) vaporizes at the high temperatures.

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D1Jgj TIL Sub-replacement fertility that is a fertility rate which, if sustained, leads to each new generation being less populous than the older is around 2.33 as opposed to the intuitive guess of 2 children per woman.
XalP TIL of Jack Ketch, an English executioner in the 1600s whose name became synomoymous with Satan, death and excecutioner because of the brutal inefficiency of his excecutions
P1KkO TIL that a monkey named Jocko Flocko was the co-driver for stock car racer Tim Flock for 8 races in 1953. Two weeks after becoming the only NASCAR-winning monkey, Jocko was euthanized after getting out of his seatbelt and hit in the head with a pebble during what became his final race
5Yd6Q TIL that Japanese vending machines are operated to dispense drinking water free of charge when the water supply gets cut off during a disaster.
WkYad TIL that Enligsh is the universal “language of the skies”. All pilots must learn and speak English, regardless of their origin.