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TIL In Japan, suicide hotlines are so busy that a person may have to try 30 or more times to get through to an operator.

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wL4WE TIL that Jeffrey R. MacDonald, a US Army Captain and physician, who murdered is family in 1970, tried to frame the Manson Family, several of whom were soon to be tried for the Tate and LaBianca murders.
eLw5 TIL In 2004, the Parisian police in an uncharted area of the Paris Catacombs, found a secret room with a stocked bar and restaurant. They returned to trace the installed power and phone lines to discover they had been cut, with a note left behind reading, “Do not try and find us.”
d8VkE TIL Back to the Future will likely never be rebooted, since co-writer and director Robert Zemeckis, who has approval over all films in the Back to the Future franchise, has stated that he will block all attempts to remake or reboot the original film.
wAXP TIL the US has similar income inequality to Russia and China
nNwG TIL Israel’s nuclear policy is NOT to “nuke the entire world” in the event it’s attacked. Israel’s policy is to not even comment on whether or not they have nuclear weapons, let alone what they would do with them if attacked.