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TIL Nicolas Cage owns a nine-foot tall pyramid in New Orleans and plans to be buried there

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W7weY TIL if conditions are met, the fat of a decaying human body can turn into a soap like substance, mummifying it. In Germany some graves are so prone to it, they have burial chambers, and special soil to prevent the saponification process.
ADm07 TIL of the old adage: “Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in morning, sailor's warning". By basing the color of the sunset/sunrise one can tell of the weather conditions for that day/night.
GaN7 TIL that in 2014, the asthma medication albuterol sulfate jumped in price from $11 for 2 tablets to $434, an increase of almost 4,000%.
MeMR7 TIL Property owners segregated Charlotte, SC to prevent the poorer white and black communities from banding together against socioeconomic inequality
MeXK7 TIL the USA is one of only 4 countries where an artist doesn't get paid if a song they perform is on AM/FM radio. The other 3 are China, Iran, and North Korea.