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TIL because we compare ourselves to the people around us, countries with the happiest people also have the highest suicide rates.

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9wBOm TIL Showcasing his knack for self deprecating humour, Machiavelli towards the end of his life would sign as "N.Machiavelli, historian, comedian and tragic". The word "tragic" being a double entendre(author of tragedy/a person with a tragic life)
Yp7Ad TIL that the World Taekwondo Federation changed its name because its acronym WTF has 'negative connotation in the digital age'
GAoRJ TIL that many species of sharks can be rotated in order to subdue them, thanks to a defensive mechanism known as tonic immobility.
R7pL9 TIL that since 9/11 more than 37,000 first responders and people around ground zero have been diagnosed with cancer and illness, and the number of disease deaths is soon to outnumber the total victims in 2001.
9YQy7 TIL of a serial arsonist in California who worked as an arson investigator and fire captain, and would commit arson on his way to and from arson investigator conferences. Before his arrest, he even wrote a novel about a firefighter who was a serial arsonist.