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wlWP TIL That a highly publicized suicide will dramatically increase the number of suicides the following 2 months.
D1W4e TIL about an ancient Japanese pruning method that allows lumber production without cutting down trees called "Daisugi"
kxoB TIL that Mark Wahlberg committed vicious hate crimes, including harassing African-American children by throwing rocks at them and shouting racial epithets and permanently blinding a Vietnamese man in one eye.
R54N6 TIL in 1998, a portion of the Titanic's hull was recovered and is now on display in a casino. Visitors are provided with a 'boarding pass' that bears the name of a passenger, and they can learn about the fate of that passenger at the end of the exhibition.
W774X TIL A “Keynesian beauty contest” describes why certain commodities are traded not for what they are intrinsically worth, but what others believe they are worth, creating an iteration of valuation belief — like a beauty contest where the judge chooses a winner by guessing the audience’s choice.