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

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XE6XE TIL A fatal dose of caffeine is 113 cups of coffee, but you’d die of water poisoning first.
e0VO4 TIL The Louvre had to put up signs asking Chinese tourists not to poop on the grounds.
ADlGo TIL that up until 1962, women were not allowed to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. At the urging of Helen Thomas, John F. Kennedy refused to attend until the ban was lifted. Helen Thomas was named president of the White house Correspondents' Association thirteen years later.
1llX TIL Skips from “Regular Show” is voiced by Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker from Star Wars).
eVNb TIL ‘McRib’ contains over 70 ingredients including a bleaching agent often used in foamed plastics. McRib’s “restructured meat technology” uses proteins extracted from a mixture of tripe, heart, and scalded stomach to bind pork trimmings into a rib-like food item.