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TIL the US actually has a higher suicide rate than Japan.

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7w6x TIL that a wife cut off her husband’s penis, tied it to a bunch of balloons and floated it away.
9w5bm TIL that Stephen King discarded the initial pages of Carrie until his wife retrieved them from the trash. This led to the publication of his first novel, which became a phenomenal success, launching his career into the multi-million-dollar industry
OoOoa TIL that in 2005 a group of reporters swab tested 46 bathrooms in the EU parlament for traces of drugs. 41 of them tested positive for cocaine.
Yp8wW TIL up until the widespread acceptance of germ theory and invention of the disposable cup in 1907, public water fountains used to consist of "common" or "community" metal cup attached to a chain
KO5vw TIL the Voyager space probe launched in 1977 and still racing through interstellar space has the same computing power as something we all carry in our pockets-- a key fob. A cell phone has 240,000 times more memory than the Voyager probe.