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TIL suicide is more common than homicide in America.

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6mB8 TIL queen bees continues to mate until she collects more than 70 million sperm from multiple males.
R7Nr6 TIL: The first food consumed on the Moon was Christian sacramental bread and wine by Buzz Aldrin. He kept it a secret due to lawsuits filed by American Atheists over the Genesis reading on Christmas 1968.
woE1Y TIL that Cheese Became a Pizza Topping Roughly a Century After Pizza's Invention
XLlk TIL that in 2012, after they won a shooting competition in Kuwait, the Kazakhstan team were subjected to the anthem from Borat, rather than their own national anthem at the medals ceremony.
9w7R6 TIL Tunisia had an infamously bad performance in modern pentathlon at the 1960 Olympics. One athlete nearly drowned; one got disqualified for firing a pistol too close to the judges; three fell off horses; and they were caught cheating in the fencing part of the event.