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TIL Tibetans practice 'sky burials' where bodies are chopped up and left to be picked clean by vultures 'who take the dead to Heaven'

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naYB TIL when Juan Belmonte, famous spanish bullfighter, learned of his friend Ernest Hemingway’s suicide in 1961, He replied “Well done”. He would kill himself less than a year later.
VMOw8 TIL French banks are still using a very old rule to calculate Bank accounts Interest on a Biweekly basis, and none have implemented a daily calculation yet. Back in the days bankers were manually doing accounting twice a month.
rRobx TIL of "geek shows," a popular act in early America travelling carnivals and circuses. A "geek," would chase live chickens, biting the chickens' heads off and swallowing them. It was a matter of pride among circus and carnival professionals not to have traveled with a troupe that included geeks.
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kOkV7 TIL that George Harrison created a film production company to fund Monty Python's Life of Brian at a cost of £3 million, because he "wanted to see the movie"—later being described by Terry Jones as "the world's most expensive cinema ticket".