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TIL that 1 in 4 people in Greenland have attempted suicide, making it the most suicidal country in the world

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78pOL TIL, Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
1Le8 TIL Wal-Mart gets sued nearly 20 times a day, close to 5,000 lawsuits each year.
v1G1x TIL that the computer scientist, Dennis Ritchie—the creator of the C programming language, and an important Unix contributor—died on 12 October 2011, exactly a week after Steve Jobs. News of the former's death was largely overshadowed by that of the latter's.