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TIL the suicide rate increased 28% from 1999 to 2010 among persons aged 35–64 years.

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PYEOJ TIL the USA performed numerous unethical human experimentation on its citizens: Exposure to chemical/biological weapons; infecting people with deadly/debilitating diseases; human radiation; injecting people toxic/radioactive chemicals; surgical, interrogation, torture and mind-control experiments.
ka05 TIL that every spring in Dongyang, China, eggs are boiled in the urine of young boys and sold as a delicacy said to “taste like spring”.
PY0ow TIL that when he was 15, Stan Lee entered a high school essay competition held by the New York Herald Tribune, and he won for 3 straight weeks until the newspaper wrote him and asked him to let someone else win. Later, the newspaper said he should look into writing professionally
rRrA4 TIL That the standard High Jump Technique was created by one Person, which was considered weird at that time
W7M5A TIL Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is the granddaughter of a famous and hugely influential movie producer, the daughter of a famous actress and author and the niece of another movie producer who produced such films as Conan the Barbarian, Dune, and Kull the Conqueror.