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TIL that in China you need to fill out paperwork and get government approval if you want to be reincarnated.

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eZxL TIL of an actor named Del Close who died in 1999. In his will he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes.
x6lYD TIL the is a "white only" town in South Africa called Orania. Intended to be an ethnostate for Afrikaners and seeks independence from the rest of the country.
AN0yo TIL that a 4-year-old was arrested for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Little Dorothy Good spent 10 months chained in a prison cell after confessing to a local judge that she had a pet snake that could talk.
VBKrD TIL, Billy Joel doesn't sell the front-row seats to his shows. He gives them away to random people from the worst seats so the real fans are in front of him instead of just wealthy people.
LkjEr TIL that Facebook has more users than the population of the U.S., China, and Brazil combined.