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TIL of ‘Shturmovshchina’—a Russian term for working frantically to meet a deadline after having not done anything for a month.

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l7X15 TIL: NJ has the lowest suicide rate in the US, and Alaska has the highest.
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m1ddR TIL in 1995, a man was convicted by a court in France for the murder of a teenage girl. However, he fleeing to Germany. In 2009, the father of the victim organized a team to abduct the killer from Germany and deliver him to a French courthouse, where he was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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