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TIL Google provides the number for the Suicide Prevention Hotline when presented with the search terms “i want to die”

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b9Q19 TIL Superbowl halftime Musical Performers are paid NOTHING for their performance.
Mem0a TIL Michel Lotito, aka Monsieur Mangetout, was a French artist who was specialized in eating non-edible things like iron or rubber. The biggest thing he ate was a plane, which took him 2 years.
VMv14 TIL by 2015, over 1,200 foreign workers died building stadiums for Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Indian Government issued a press release "Considering the large size of our community, the number of deaths is quite normal."
OoQ8Y In a new study in Science, a team of linguists at the University of Zurich uses biomechanics and linguistic evidence to make the case that the rise of agriculture thousands of years ago increased the odds that populations would start to use sounds such as f and v. The idea is that agriculture introduced a range of softer foods into human diets, which altered how humans' teeth and jaws wore down with age in ways that made these sounds slightly easier to produce.
B00y TIL that Jews and Christians are considered “protected minorities” in Iran, and have seats reserved for them in the Iranian Parliament.