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TIL after 13 Reasons Why's first season aired, searches for "suicide prevention" rose by 23%, but searches for "how to commit suicide" increased by 26%.

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Y7y7r TIL: The Bronx County Bird Club (BCBC) was a small informal club of birders based in the Bronx, New York. Many club members became well-known ornithologists and authors.
Xbk8 TIL the sound Hypnotoad from Futurama makes is a recording of a turbine engine played backwards.
bBA7 TIL someone tallied all the points from “Whose Line is it Anyway?”, and the winner was Wayne Brady with just over 50 Million.
9w51r TIL the Voyager missions launched when it launched, so as to take advantage (for the purpose of gravitational assist) of a rare alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, that happens only once, every 175 years.
OPee TIL In 1988, a government-led drug, money laundering, and nationwide child abuse ring was exposed in Nebraska. In the aftermath, the case’s chief investigator died violently, the abused minors were jailed for accusing their abusers, and a documentary on the topic was banned.