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TIL South Korea ranks 3rd in global suicide rates, and the biggest cause for youths? Bad scores related to an extremely difficult universal university entrance exam.

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NXxbP TIL about Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, inventor of the Happy Meal. She was the daughter of the Chilean embassador to Guatemala. Her husband owned the first McDonalds in Guatemala, and she went to study in the Hamburger University.
neX1r TIL there is a law in France stating that models have to provide a doctor's certificate attesting to their overall physical health, with special regard to their body mass index (BMI)
Jl8v TIL that between the time it was discovered and the time it was unclassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun. It will complete its revolution in the year 2178.
VM0bG TIL in 1689, a philosopher asked: "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability to see, distinguish those objects by sight alone?" In 2003, 5 people who had their sight restored were asked that question. They all answered no.
Y7XGr TIL in 1974 Whitey Bulger and an accomplice set fire to an elementary school to intimidate a judge that mandated a plan to desegregate schools in Boston by busing. A year later he threw a Molotov cocktail into JFK's birthplace in retaliation of Sen. Ted Kennedy supporting Boston school desegregating