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TIL that, in 2009, German goalkeeper Robert Enke committed suicide by train. Over the months after Enke's death, the number of railway suicides increased dramatically in Germany and several nearby countries. This effect was referred to as the Enke effect

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VMgYZ TIL of 102-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand who held the 100-plus category one-hour record of 24 kilometres and 251 metres until he broke his own record at the age of 102 years riding 26 kilometers and 927 metres in one hour.
pYmoA TIL the earliest written version of Revelations says that 616 is the number of the beast. Why it changed to 666 is anybody's guess.
4Q6X TIL When Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) was arrested in 1983 for possession of marijuana, his punishment was to write, produce and finance his own anti-drug PSA.
x6m1b TIL bestiality was legal in Denmark until 2015
M7Zk8 TIL that “Servus” is a German greeting, pretty much the same as “Ciao” and with same origin/etymology