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TIL that the expression "yellow journalism" is derived from the newspapers that originally ran the comic strip the Yellow Kid.

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4Xol5 TIL that Ned Vizzini, author of “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” and other popular young-adult books that dealt with themes such as teen anxiety and depression, died by suicide.
neb9W TIL that famous English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried most of his poems with his late wife in Highgate Cemetery of London, then later had her exhumed so he could retrieve them.
5YAon TIL the Israeli intelligence agency (MOSSAD) ran a high end diving resort in Sudan for years as a cover to smuggling Jewish Ethiopians back to Israel.
YGLr TIL that Muhammad Ali threw his 1960 Olympic Gold Medal into the Ohio River, following is refused service at a “whites-only” restaurant. He would be awarded with an honorary medal in 1996.
BgEJd TIL US soldiers are four times as likely to die by suicide than in combat