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TIL depression causes more years of disability than cancer, HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases combined

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8egW4 TIL that the President and Vice President of Azerbaijan are Husband and Wife. If President Ilham Aliyev ever steps down than Mehriban Aliyeva(wife) would become the president.
wLawP TIL the American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress Peggy Lee voiced not only Peg in the dog pound in Lady and the Tramp, but Darling and the two Siamese cats Si and Am.
6Elm8 TIL each year about 100 US firefighters are convicted of arson. The issue is so prevalent that the South Carolina Forestry Commission and the FBI Behavior Analysis Unit both created profiles of an arsonist firefighter.
eVLD TIL the decapitated horse head in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather was not a prop. It was a real severed horse head.
RrX9 TIL The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is the site of a 35-million year old impact crater and that shaped the bay