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

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6xJY TIL over the past few years the populations of wolves, lynxes, bears and wolverines in Europe have all been going up
aw69 TIL that the Norse gods have a pig of unlimited bacon
xyjo TIL Doris “Granny D” Haddock was a political activist who walked over 3000 miles around the age of 90 to advocate for a single cause: campaign finance reform.
9Y4E7 TIL Humans lived inland in North America 1,000 years before scientists suspected. Stone tools and other artifacts found in Idaho hint that the First Americans lived here 16,000 years ago — long before an overland path to the continent existed. It’s more evidence humans arrived via a coastal route.
GYJPQ TIL the full name of the dictator of Zaire (now D.R. Congo) was Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, which translates to "The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake."