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I believe we all should get to choose whether we are buried or cremated, I mean in the end

by cringeyjokesman July 1, 2022, 7:59 pm

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TIL that the Capitol was designed to have George Washington’s tomb on public display. Both houses passed bills saying he should be buried there, and his wife consented, but due to various delays it took until 1830 for it to be viable. After an attempted theft of his head, the project was cancelled.

by whatilearned June 29, 2022, 2:25 pm

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TIL: Marie Curie is buried in a Paris coffin that is lead lined. Her body and notes are radioactive because she worked with radium – a chemical a million times more radioactive than uranium. Her notes are expected to be dangerously radioactive for the next 1500 years.

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 12:37 am

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TIL that Alexander the Great was accidentally buried alive. Scientists believe Alexander suffered from a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré Syndrome. They believe that when he died he was actually just paralyzed and mentally aware.

by whatilearned June 24, 2022, 11:22 am

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TIL The tent and some equipment used at the South Pole by the Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen on 14 December 1911 is still there, buried beneath 17 meters of snow.

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 9:45 pm

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TIL in the early 18th century, the St. Bernard dog breed was used by monks living in St.Bernard’s Pass to help rescue people after snowstorms. Their resistance to cold weather and great sense of direction made them helpful for this. They were even able to find people deeply buried under snow.

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 7:01 pm

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TIL Arthur Wharton, born Ghana, 1865, became the 100 yard world record holder for 30 years, the world’s first professional black soccer player, a cycling champion, a professional cricketer and then a professional rugby player. He died penniless in 1930 and was buried in an unmarked paupers grave.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 1:31 pm

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TIL 94 US WWII Servicemen executed by the US Military are buried in “Plot E” of the Oise Aisne American Cemetery in France, a section designated for “the dishonored dead”. Hedges hide it from view, no US flag is permitted to fly over it, the graves lack headstones and it is not publicly accessible.

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 10:01 pm

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TIL of Mt. Zion Cemetery, founded in 1916 in East Los Angeles, as a burial place for Eastern European Jews. Amongst the buried was Lamed Shapiro, noted Yiddish writer who died destitute. Inconclusive county records indicate no legal owner, with the last burial taking place in the late 2000s.

by whatilearned June 5, 2022, 5:12 am

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TIL: In 1485 a perfectly preserved body of a girl was discovered along the Via Appia just outside of Rome. Condition of it was so good that it looked that the person was buried yesterday despite being 1500 years old

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 9:31 pm

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Hemmingway said “Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name” whats a anecdote about someone youve lost?

by QuestionGuy May 30, 2022, 6:25 pm

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TIL about Fred Baur, an American organic chemist known for designing the Pringles container and method of packaging the chips. At his request, some of his ashes were buried in an Original Flavor Pringles container.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 6:24 pm

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