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TIL: That Abraham Lincoln faced chronic depression. He would not carry knives for fear he would use them on himself.

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b5Z9 TIL In response to artist Anish Kapoor buying the exclusive rights to Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black, artist Stuart Semple created “the world’s pinkest pink”, and made it available to anyone except Kapoor; things then got messy.
LQolp TIL that a season of Super Sentai (The show that Power Rangers take fight footage from) ended with a ranger getting killed by a mugger.
161eW TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans
nYdW TIL Puerto Rico is solving its iguana problem by putting the meat on menus (and they call it the chicken of the trees!)
BAoD TIL Sauron’s tower from Lord of the Rings is more than 6x taller than the Wall from Game of Thrones.