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TIL about the practice of Thalaikoothal , the practice of using coconut water to perform Senicide, the act of killing of an aged person

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6ERbZ TIL: That Nine people drowned in London by a flood of over 300,000 gallons of beer.
9YYPQ TIL that in 2014, Assyriology specialist Dr Irving Finkel translated a cuneiform tablet that predates the Bible, which described a flood, much like the story of Noah. However, this story described the ark not as oblong, but round in shape.
5YBjr TIL of a legend of Bodhidharma a Monk who fell asleep wall gazing, to stop it happening again he cut off his eyelids. When his eyelids hit the ground they became the first tea plants. This is apparently why the character for eyelids and tea are the same in Japanese.
OpG6 TIL that Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the Holocaust memoir “Night”, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity. The charity lost nearly $16 million in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Wiesel and his wife also lost their entire personal life savings.
ADoYB TIL that the US Navy publicly denied what is now believed to be an urban legend. Allegedly, a US Navy battleship or aircraft carrier encountered what was ostensibly another vessel and the Captain instructed it to change course. The response was, 'I'm a lighthouse. Your call.'