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TIL that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US

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pXAA TIL Oakley had a pricing dispute with conglomerate Luxottica who responded by dropping the brand in all their stores, causing Oakley’s stock to drop. Luxottica then bought out the company. They own Sunglasses Hut, LensCrafters, PearleVision, Target Optical, and several licenses such as Ray-Ban.
vPEB7 TIL that around 20.000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, the sea level was about 410ft (125m) lower than today and permanent summer ice covered 25% of the Earth’s land surface.
8evmP TIL NFL great Jim Brown retired at only 29 while filming "The Dirty Dozen"
pY0N4 TIL that the only place in the world where Japanese is an official language is Angaur, an island in Palau. Japan doesn’t have the de jure official language.
kOBke TIL Forty years ago, a prominent designer received a call from an undergrad architecture student who told him that a design flaw in his 59-story Manhattan skyscraper could cause it to collapse during a storm. Initially he scoffed, then disturbingly, figured that she was right...