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TIL suicides news can affect people with depression, specially if the suicidal was a relative or someone famous. The suicide rate has increased by 10% after the death of Robin Williams.

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dYwr TIL that the Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus arranged the planets in order of distance from the Sun, concluding that it could not be in orbit around the Earth because a body that large could not orbit a body so small.
P1XKG TIL that in 1524, the letter “J” was the last to be added to the English alphabet; before that, “I” was used for both sounds.
4YWg TIL that it would take 1,200,000 mosquitos, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human’s body of blood.
KYOoB TIL Union Veterans opposed the construction of a statue in Washington, DC honoring a rebel general.
5gdD TIL 21 years before L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series, he read a disaster report of a tornado in Irving, Kansas, in May 1879 which included the name of a victim, Dorothy Gale, who was “found buried face down in a mud puddle.”