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TIL in Japanese, the Buddhist term for “refraining from saying bad words” is ‘Fuck’.

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490N TIL An Ohio Judge, who each year would move a drunken-driving trial from his courtroom to a local high school as a cautionary tale to students, was arrested himself on a DUI after he hit a County bus, failed to stop, then refused a sobriety test after being pulled over by police
4kOAJ TIL that the weight of cremated human adult remains is, on average, around 3.5% of the body weight of the deceased person.
e0EBE TIL of the improbable case of Phineas Gage, An American railroad worker who survived an accident where a metal bar went completely through his head
VvgB TIL that the Sega Saturn had online play capability, and due to not using a service similar to Xbox Live or PSN, is still capable of being played today (assuming you have a phone line still)!
a8DyN TIL Stepwells are wells or ponds with a long corridor of steps that descend to the water level and were created to cope with seasonal fluctuations in water availability in South Asia.