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GYnmN TIL that in 1823, an Italian naturalist invented a process for petrifying fresh human cadavers. Accused of practicing Black magic, he burned all his notes. To this day, no one is sure how he did it.
DlEj TIL that a town in Japan painted a broken phone booth white so that people in grief can send messages to lost loved ones.
e0wPb TIL only 64–77% of people experience a headache at some point in their lives.
M7BmK TIL that every dog testicle examined in a study contained microplastics. So did human testicles
gMeZb TIL in 2018 a German city produced souvenir €0 banknotes to honor the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, the father of Communism.