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TIL engineers have the 5th highest suicide rate of all professions, right after factory workers.

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dmgZ TIL: The patent for the Lego brick expired years ago, which is why copycat products like Mega Bloks are allowed to exist.
7rgyb TIL that California administers what is widely considered the nation's most difficult bar examination twice each year. Unsuccessful applicants have even sued the State Bar—unsuccessfully—on the grounds that the exam is unnecessarily difficult.
VMOE4 TIL pedophiles are more likely to abuse teenagers than kids under 12
LkOOP TIL The day after John Lennon was murdered David Bowie was appearing in the play The Elephant Man. Chapman had a front-row ticket to play that night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front for that show too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row.
awvwb TIL in 2017, a man stopped to be interviewed on the street by a local news reporter about public transit issues, only to be identified by viewers as a suspect who attempted to rob three banks shortly before. This ultimately led to his identification and arrest.