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TIL New moms in Finland get a ‘starter kit’: clothes, snowsuits, sheets, toys, picture books and a padded box which is the baby’s first crib. All FOR FREE.

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d8mj TIL that praising kids for their intelligence may actually stifle their progress. Instead, they should be praised for their effort.
Pebn TIL that South Korea is the world leader in.. suicides. Currently there is an average of 31.7 suicides per 100,000 people. Only .1 more than Lithuania’s 31.6 suicide rate which is the second highest.
d8oJB TIL In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson secretly commissioned an actuarial study that accurately predicted he would die at 64.
R5vml TIL that britian ordered and carried out the murder of every single able bodied man between the ages of 18 and 70 in a whole province of sri lanka in 1818
1a7xV TIL Two guys used their dead friends ashes as fishing bait and caught the worlds biggest Carp.