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TIL USA is the only English speaking country that pronounces Z as zee instead of zed

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16aAd TIL about the Society of Mutual Autopsy, established on 1876 by French anthropologists, whose rule was that each member had, on his death, to deliver his body (especially the brain) to the group for autopsy
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