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TIL of Sumanto, a cannibal who dug up corpses of recently dead people then ate them as part of a black magic ritual to make himself "invulnerable".

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ADQGx TIL people used to believe toothaches and other dental problems were caused by "tooth worms" that lived in our teeth and consumed them from the inside out.
e0dJ4 TIL the Doomsday rule is an algorithm to find the day of the week for a given date. It takes advantage of each year having a certain day, called the doomsday, upon which certain dates fall; e.g, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12, & last day of Feb all occur on the same day of the week in any year
e0wbJ TIL there's a stone age tribe of people untouched by civilization who kill you with arrows if you come near their island
b6ZL9 TIL about the world's rarest bird that was thought to be extinct for nearly 80 years until it was rediscovered in 2013. Only 3 individuals of the species are known to exist in the wild.
VrND TIL that Japanese death row inmates aren’t given their execution date until a few hours prior and their family isn’t told until after they’re already dead.