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TIL the day after Robin Williams' suicide was announced, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saw the highest number of calls in a single day in its history with 7,500 (twice the normal number).

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woKGo TIL: France still doesn't recognise North Korea, along with Japan and South Korea.
WmR9 TIL the Nazi’s used German boxer Max Schmeling in propaganda after he beat African American Joe Louis. Schmeling disliked the Nazis, he refused Hitler’s gifts and hid Jewish children during Kristallnacht. He would later becomes friends with Louis and was a pallbearer at his funeral.
loR7N TIL during his reign in the 630s Caliph Umar was the first to appoint police forces to keep civil order.
Yr1Z TIL that as of 2016, just 49.3% of the world population lived in countries with some form of fair and free elections, and only 4.5% could be said to be living in a full democracy.