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TIL : Australians 15-44, number one cause of death is suicide.

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kJkXd TIL Norah Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shankar who played with The Beatles
QvLX TIL Hungarian chemist Georgy de Hevesy dissolved Max von Laue and James Franck’s Nobel Prize medals in a highly corrosive mix of acids, aqua regia, to hide from the Nazis. After the war, he precipitated the gold out of solution and sent it to Stockholm where the medals were recast.
eVmD TIL reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes was being kept awake at night by the bright neon sign from the ‘Silver Slipper’ casino, so he bought the casino and dismantled the sign.
gMpLL TIL The Wolf of Wall Street was almost wholly produced with money embezzled from Malaysia's Development Fund (their former prime minister is serving jail time but the main embezzler got away)
n8r7 TIL the medical drama ‘House M. D. ’ was based on Sherlock Holmes. Incidentally, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes was Joseph Bell, a doctor in the 19th century with uncanny observational skills.