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TIL Americans are over-diagnosed and over-treated for depression, according to a study conducted at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School

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EAN0 TIL the Burj Khalifa is so tall that residents above the 80th floor have to wait 2-3 minutes longer to end Ramadan
J1LQ8 TIL that when Consuelo Velázquez wrote her most famous song in 1932, Bésame mucho ("Kiss me a lot"), she had, according to her, never been kissed yet at the time.
VBoPD TIL there is a North Korean novel in English about a couple falling in love while studying at university in Pyongyang who later flee to China. The author Ann Shin met and interviewed many defectors
Br05D TIL about Fort Jefferson, abandoned since 1906, a huge hexagonal fort occupying nearly an entire island in the Dry Tortugas off Florida; though never finished, it is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas.
OJQR TIL that because Oakland and San Francisco were playing each other in the World Series, few people were driving on the double-deck freeway when it pancaked during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake