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TIL that selling stolen artifacts is the 3rd most profitable wing of the black market, after drugs and weapons.

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8awYL TIL In the Philippines, some Catholics volunteer to be non-lethally crucified on Good Friday. Sterilised nails are driven through their palms and they are hung on crosses. Ruben Enaje has been crucified 27 times. Philippines Department of Health advises tetanus shots before crucifixion
KYZgJ TIL there are 56 United States Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipients who received the medal for jumping on grenades and mines to save the lives of their comrades.
yKBJ TIL Russian scientist successfully cloned a plant that became extinct 30000 years ago (in the Pleistocene age), the plant bore fruit and continued reproducing on it’s own.
PKZw TIL that Memphis, the #2 worst city in America, has the cleanest and sweetest water in the entire world; it is so clean that it is even used to make vaccines because it requires very little purification.
Xx1X TIL That the ‘Happy Birthday’ song had an 80 year copyright claim on it and was only recently abolished