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TIL That living at high altitude can protect you from certain diseases, but increases your risk of suicide… and we’re not entirely sure why.

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nWyZ9 TIL about GJ 1214 b, an exoplanet that orbits a star about 48 light-years from our Sun. GJ 1214 b is the most likely known candidate for being an ocean planet or "waterworld." Due to varying pressures, ocean planet models feature steam, liquid, superfluid, high-pressure ice, and plasma-phase water.
nejyW TIL of Clara Brown, a woman who was born a slave in Virginia that, after receiving her freedom, would go on to start a laundry business, become the owner of mines in Colorado during the gold rush, and even traveled to Kansas to help freed slaves build communities
Vdnk TIL Heroin derives its name from “heroic”, as it was originally marketed as a non-addictive wonder cure to morphine addiction
OGog4 TIL that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, is the granddaughter of a WWII Bletchley Park codebreaker.
ALLB TIL that in an attempt to prove to a group of students that the glass in the Toronto-Dominion Centre was unbreakable, Garry Hoy threw himself through a glass wall on the 24th story and fell to his death after the window frame gave way.