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TIL in the USA you get a medal if you donate the organs/body of a deceased loved one

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Men9b TIL 16th century English writers added silent letters to many words to better link them to Greek or Latin, even if no such link existed, such as the b in debt or s in island
0wlXj TIL the US actually has a higher suicide rate than Japan.
6E9MJ TIL Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes presented themselves as siblings, but were actually married and divorced before the band became famous
Wk1Bo TIL it would take at least 500 survivors to repopulate the earth (without creating major issues because of inbreeding) after an apocalypse
NGl6 TIL that the world map that we are all familiar with is actually proportionally inaccurate and the real world looks much different. For example Africa is actually so large that it can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, UK, Eastern Europe and 6 other Western European countries combined.