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TIL Coffins are given priority over any other luggage on Airplanes

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QJpdE TIL of the Guangxi Massacre in China, where local Communist Party offices sponsored mass cannibalism to promote political factions. Up to 150,000 people died, some bodies were retained as after-dinner snacks, and there was even a social hierarchy created of who was allowed to eat which body parts.
6Ey5Z TIL that internet classic Chocolate Rain was a powerful anthem against institutional racism.
XEbbr TIL: The "air" puffing-up most potato chips bags is actually not air. It's nitrogen. Chemical reactions with regular air would hurt the taste. Also, typical snacks bags are a high-tech sandwich of polypropylene, a possible thin coating of aluminum, and polyethylene (grocery-bag plastic).
KYlEa TIL that the world's oldest known recipe is for beer! It dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, around 3,900 years ago, and includes instructions on how to brew a delicious barley-based beer.
dDYNZ TIL about 'Tree Spiking'. A practice in which someone screws or hammers in a spike into the base or trunk of a tree with the intention of causing personal and industrial harm. This has lead to the maiming and deaths of lumberjacks and factory workers...