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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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9wVY7 TIL Australia's first govt-backed pill & drug testing service, after its first month of operation, found that all the cocaine tested by the service had purity levels below 27% with 40% of the samples containing zero cocaine.
5YVJr Characterized by their large green bodies and beak-like teeth, bumphead parrotfish can be found near the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific. These large corallivores use their mighty teeth to grind up the hard exterior of coral in search of the small creatures living inside. If you've ever visited a beach in these regions, you've probably relaxed on the sandy remnants of this coral-based diet. In other words, that beach is full of crap! National Geographic grantee Mikayla Wujec fills us in in this episode of Today I Learned.
N7VYb TIL that eating pizza boosts serotonin - an essential feel-good hormone. You can also aid serotonin production by eating nuts, seeds, and fish (for tryptophan) and yogurt (who's probiotics aid in digestion).
Y7g9W TIL Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
DpwV TIL in 2002, a mid-air collision between a passenger jet and cargo jet took the lives of all 71 people aboard both planes. A man whose family was killed in the collision later stabbed to death the Air Traffic Controller that was on duty at the time of the collision.