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TIL that a town in Colorado offers an open air funeral pyre as an option instead of cremation or regular burial

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1Gn4 TIL that in many South Park episodes A-star celebrities star in non-speaking roles. Jerry Seinfeld once offered to lend his voice for an episode, but declined to appear when he was only offered the role as “Turkey #2”.
4a8X TIL that M&M’s actually stands for “Mars & Murrie’s,” the last names of the candy’s founders.
d8rpZ TIL Romanian sewer workers accidentally discovered a cave which was sealed for 5.5 million years. Movile Cave is filled with evolutionary distinct exotic creatures (albino crabs, worms) which feed off sulfur-producing bacteria
7rvK7 TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.
4oA6 TIL of a condition opposite of Paranoia called Pronoia causing the suspicion that everyone is conspiring to help you.