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TIL that China, Bangladesh and Grenada are the only countries where the female suicide rate is higher than the male rate

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16MbO TIL in a Florida ceremony honoring James Earl Jones on MLK Day in 2002, the plaque honoring the actor bore the assassin's name — James Earl Ray — thanking him for "keeping the dream alive"
VMDL4 TIL when Prohibition was enacted in USA, it took less than an hour for the first documented violation of it to happen
npgY TIL Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) was the first future US President to be born in a hospital
mxJEy TIL the University of Cambridge (1209) is actually older than the Aztec Empire (1428)
d8l8 TIL Rep. Joe Barton (R–Texas) is against wind energy because “wind is God’s way of balancing heat,” and fears that wind turbines will slow down the wind thus heating up the earth. He also claims wind is a “finite resource.”