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TIL suicide is more common than homicide in America.

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EA5X TIL Photoshop won’t allow you to edit pictures of currency.
WXJd TIL An American cannot be stripped of citizenship by the government for any reason, including treason or foreign military service. He or she must willingly choose to renounce it.
00VA TIL that your 10,000th day of being alive occurs when you are 27 years, 4 months, and (depending on leap-year cycles), approx 2 weeks old.
Ovma TIL in 1120 the the captain of the White Ship was encouraged by on-board revelers to try and overtake another vessel on which King Henry I was a passenger. In the dark the ship hit a submerged rock and capsized, leading to the death of Henry’s only heir, which led to a 20 year civil war.
4OxX TIL that in 2011, Norway went through a nationwide butter shortage, where smugglers would often get caught smuggling butter and online auctions for one packet of butter reached as high as $77.