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TIL South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate, in part due to elderly isolation.

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gMjr7 TIL Jim Crow was not a real person, but a character played by a white actor performing minstrel routines.
epjvb TIL In 1983, it was announced on radio that the hard to find Cabbage Patch Dolls would be dropped from a plane at County Stadium. People just needed to hold up a catcher’s mitt and their credit card, to be photographed by the plane. 20-30 people fell for the prank and showed up at the stadium.
oB5wo TIL that the eastern most part of Russia and the western most part of USA are separated by just 2.4 miles or 3.8 kilometers. Russia is the closest country to USA which doesn't share a land border.
47Jw TIL Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” only reached #9 on the US charts when the song was first released in 1976, but reached #2 in 1992 after Wayne’s World came out
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