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TIL Japan has the highest rate of cremation in the world, at approximately 99.9%.

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n8gG TIL Unlike most mammals, the bowhead whale can live well past the age of 200.
loekV TIL about Scott and Helen Nearing, who bought acreage in the Great Depression and lived off the land until a ski resort saw their property value soar to $6 million. Deciding they'd done nothing to justify the increase, they donated the land to use as a forest, moved to Maine, and lived to age 99.
Wk5Lo TIL When on tour, Queen would play their own version of Scrabble they called "Death Scrabble". They would have intense games through the night till morning.The highest single word laid down was by Brian, with the word Lacquers, worth 168 points. Freddie never forgave him for that.
D1KDr TIL that pickles are just cucumbers, that are pickled.