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TIL in China “body fishers” keep the dead bodies of bridge jumpers until customers come to buy the remains of their loved ones.

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B8Gd TIL that the word quarantine is derived from the days of the Black Plague when ships entering Venice were forced to anchor offshore for forty (or quaranta in Italian) days before being permitted to unload
x66j7 TIL There is more fresh water floating around in the atmosphere than in all the rivers of Earth combined.
R5vOj TIL This iconic picture taken during the Vietnam War in 1967 is actually an Australian Battalion heading back to their base, Nui Dat
xEj5 TIL Martin Scorsese’s new movie “The Wolf on Wall Street” hold’s the record for dropping the most f-bombs in a film
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