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TIL There are different rates of suicides and suicidal behavior between males and females. While females more often have suicidal thoughts, males die by suicide more frequently. In the Western world, males die by suicide three to four times more often than do females.

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e0laE TIL in order to charge more for cinnamon Arab traders claimed that the sticks were used by deadly birds to build their nest. The only way to get it was to trick the bird into trying fill its nest with heavy pieces of meat. The nest would fall and the cinnamon would be taken before the birds attacked
7rQZZ TIL that DC comics has a supervillain named Captain Nazi, whose powers include super strength, speed, stamina, and the ability to fly by breathing a "special flying gas".
J1mVm TIL When The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered in 1961, Mary Tyler Moore was 24 years old, portraying Laura Petrie, who was 17 at the time of her marriage to Rob Petrie. Dick Van Dyke was 35, playing Rob, whose age was implied to be in his early 30’s.
JGO1 TIL that Tonga, a nation consisting of over 1200 islands in the Pacific, has never been conquered or colonized ever and is ruled by a King that traces his ancestry back 1000 years.
kOBo7 TIL Plastic waste can be converted into fuel - gasoline, diesel or kerosine - needing only 1 kw of electricity make 1 liter of oil. This means all the plastic choking sea life, polluting the ocean, and filling landfills could have been used to power cars and machinery.