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TIL that people who attempted suicide at a young age are seven times more likely to die of a heart attack before age 40

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4Gvw TIL A zip bomb, also known as a zip of death or decompression bomb, is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. 42.zip was 42kilobytes when compressed but increased to 4.5 petabytes when decompressed.
pRnO TIL that although English is considered a Germanic language, 60% of the vocabulary is of Latin or French origin.
ADbP7 TIL Iceland was extensively forested before the first humans settled there. But within 500 years of their arrival 95% of woodlands had been cut down, leading to soil erosion, crop failure and the eventual abandonment of many farms.
p8mB4 TIL that Medical Bills and illness account for 2/3 of the bankruptcy filings in the US.
DOmv TIL CAPTCHA is an acronym: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”