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TIL It is so cold in Svalbard, they cannot properly bury anyone in a coffin, since the body won't decompose.

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0wgwp TIL Tiger Woods is only 1/16th African-American and 75% Asian.
oRYo TIL Muslims actually did dance in the streets to celebrate the 9/11 attacks. The video on the news wasn’t fake.
OGZjY TIL that the Iran Mall in Tehran is the largest shopping mall in the world, with 1.95 million square meters/21 million square feet (four times the size of Vatican City) in gross leasable space
6E1vZ TIL in 1972 eight people at a party snorted what they thought was cocaine, but was actually pure LSD, averaging about 50,000 doses per person. All but one became comatose, but made full recoveries in the hospital 12 hours later, with no apparent physical or psychological after effects.
VBJe8 TIL one gallon of gasoline contains about 28,747,000 calories, or 28,747 kcals