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TIL That in developed countries suicide now takes more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined – and the suicide rate worldwide has jumped 60% since WWII, and has jumped 30% in the US in the last decade alone

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VBV40 TIL Theodore Hook & the Berners Street hoax
M705m TIL that the hidden space under the Lincoln Memorial is about to become a museum
57Q9 TIL A man who lied about passing his second year of university, pretended to continue his study, crafting an elaborate lie until everyone he knew thought he was a medical doctor. No one found out for 18 years, until he killed his entire family to avoid being revealed.
mx8Eo TIL that many of the hangings during the Nuremberg trials were carried out with short rope that caused prisoners to die a long, lingering death from suffocation, rather than an instantaneous death from a broken neck.
pObA TIL David Attenborough is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programs in black and white, colour, HD, and 3D.