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TIL every fifth person in Greenland tries to commit suicide at some point in their lifetimes

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LJWQ TIL Touching stainless steel can remove the smell of onions from your fingers.
nJbB TIL that when Anne Richards was running for Governor of Texas in 1991 her opponent Clayton Williams shot himself in the foot (figuratively) by stating “ Rape is like bad weather…if it’s inevitable lay back, relax and enjoy it..”
rRd5d TIL in 2015 three inmates from a maximum security prison beat Harvard’s debate team in a competitive debate.
J4y8 TIL a white guy in Oakland put a concrete Buddha in a median to stop trash dumping, and it turned into a huge Vietnamese shrine - stopping the dumping but filling his neighborhood with tourists.
MwJA TIL That post-911 a large number of songs were banned from many radio stations including ACDC’s TNT, Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York, and all of Rage Against the Machine’s songs