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TIL nearly 40% of worldwide female suicides occur in India

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woLGM TIL about the silver fox domestication experiment which resulted in silver foxes having more dog like appearances
9Y1OD TIL Winston Churchill wrote the best-selling novel in the United States in 1904
v1VNR TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician and the only person to have solved a Clay Millennium Prize problem for which he declined the $1 million prize. Grigori Perelman also declined mathematics' most prestigious award, the Fields Medal.
9w40p TIL That a few days after the Oklahoma City Bombings, a severed left leg was found in the rubble. DNA evidence showed that it from a victim, Lakesha Levy. When they went to return her leg, it was found that she was already buried with one. It is unknown who the buried leg belongs to.
9YV8B TIL that Snowball the cockatoo has recently shown ground-breaking evidence that other animals besides humans can recognize a musical beat and create their own dance moves