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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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OoAlX TIL that the US military has never banned the use of napalm on military targets away from civilian areas, and still has a type of bomb very similar to napalm called the Mark 77 that has been used in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
4XJBa TIL Mother Teresa tried to baptize dying people without telling them and found the suffering of poor people as beautiful
awo4y TIL That Aeropostale supplied football uniforms for UConn & Pitt in the early 2000s
yVLPv TIL Babe Ruth became a shirtmaker as a teenager while attending a reformatory/orphanage. Even during his baseball career, he adjusted his own shirt collars, rather than have a tailor do it
jNRQa TIL that cutting down a cactus in Arizona is similar to cutting down a protected tree species, and can land the perpetrator up to 25 years in jail.