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

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GARaj TIL about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneering female codebreaker who decrypted mob codes during prohibition and busted up Nazi spy rings in South America, yet was robbed of her due credit by J. Edgar Hoover and died in obscurity in 1980, never revealing her immense wartime service.
P1PaO TIL that Steven Spielberg wanted to make an animated adaption of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats but was later canceled
6ERJX TIL Huddie Ledbetter, famous folk/blues singer Lead Belly (Midnight Special, Where did you sleep last night?) learned most of his songs in prison. He was in prison multiple times for assault and even murder. He escaped once and sang his way out of prison twice by writing songs to residing Governors.
WkkwA TIL Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch quietly paid Rosa Parks rent for years.
mKXo TIL that Ernest Hemingway was not the only one in his family to commit suicide. His father, sister, brother, son, and granddaughter also committed suicide. This is the origin of the term “Hemingway curse”.