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TIL: Dedicated Japanese monks spent years going through the horrifying process of turning themselves into mummies... while still alive. Viewing their bodies is now one of the world's creepiest tourist attractions.

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nxDY TIL There was a German pop star who knowingly spread HIV without informing her partners, and got only a 2 year suspended sentence and 300 hours of community service.
KYvEQ TIL that 1941 movie Citizen Kane had a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes until a negative review from when the movie came out was discovered in 2021
R7K9l TIL that the legendary 1981 film "Das Boot" was shot as if it were a silent film, with all of the dialogue and sound added later, because the cameras and their newly developed gyroscopic stabilizers, used for the submarine interiors, drowned out the dialogue and diegetic sound.
Vw94 TIL all U.S. presidents except one are related to one British king: John Lackland, signer of the Magna Carta.
lonGA TIL of the Hedgehog Dilemma. Schopenhauer’s metaphor that describes how humans want intimacy, but often hurt each other trying to get it.