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TIL Nancy Grace has been linked to two separate suicides

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45NR TIL Mr. T’s hardest battle was fighting a form of cancer called T-Cell Lymphoma. Even he couldn’t ignore the irony, calling it a “personalized cancer” during an interview.
WkvAB TIL A report by the American Psychological Association found that while pop music was becoming increasingly sexualized, age recommendations and content disclaimers actually "unintentionally and paradoxically attract youth to age-inappropriate media".
WkKQX TIL The Douamont Ossuary has the bones of over 100,000 unidentified soldiers who died at Verdun. The total combined casualties of the battle amounted to 750,000 with 300,000 being KIA
0K45 TIL that the “Atari Shuffle” was a trick used to get free plays from early coin-op arcade games. The trick involved players shuffling their feet to build a static charge, which could then be used to zap the machine into giving them a free game. (Referenced at 1:02)
Z8oD4 TIL Taiwan has an island (Kinmen County) that's only 2 km off the coast of China.