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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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grWV4 TIL of the 2011 Norwegian Butter Crises, which led to multiple countries gathering up butter and sending it to the butter-starved Norwegians - as well as having multiple companies offer .5 - 1 kilogram of butter to incentivize a purchase.
6NP8 TIL on his deathbed the writer/philosopher Voltaire responded to the priest asking him if he renounced Satan for his Last Rites, he responded,“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.”
w0PY TIL 1 kg of coal can generate 8 kWh of heat, whereas 1 kg of uranium 235 can generate 24,000,000 kWh of heat.
4j6b TIL that an Australian man waited 416 days to see what happens after his ipod timer passes 9999 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds
lW0V TIL of “The Giggling Granny” Nannie Doss who between the 1920s and early 1950s murdered almost every member of her family.