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TIL adolescents who experienced cyberbullying were more than four times as likely to report suicidal thoughts and attempts

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X0E48 TIL 250 people in the US have cryogenically preserved their bodies to be revived later.
kOyD5 TIL that Long Island is a "terminal moraine", which is the pile of debris that glaciers pushed along as they advanced south during previous ice ages. You can see two set of hills that formed from glacier movement.
Eevx TIL that in 2013 a grad student accidentally debunked an influential economics paper. He was trying to replicate the paper’s math for a school project and couldn’t, because it was completely wrong.
EgZkw TIL The computing term "debugging" originated from the time when engineers had to remove moths (and other bugs) that the vaccum tubes attracted
LQVr0 TIL the greatest temperature variation in 24-hour period was 57.2°C (103°F), in Loma, Montana. Over the course of the day, the town experienced a rise from -47.7°C (-54°F) to 9.4°C (49°F).