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TIL that every year around 1 million people commit suicide with attempted suicides being about 20 times more common.

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QJYpk TIL in the 1st century AD two major Talmudic schools had a debate over whether mankind would've been better off having been born or not having been born. After two and a half years of argument, votes were counted and the side defending birth lost
bBLQ TIL 80% of lightning strike victims are male.
kJayB TIL a woman was convicted of blasphemy in Austria, and the European Court of Human Rights upheld this conviction in 2018.
b9rd4 TIL that the term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan. It was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address.
e0rw4 TIL 94% of male giraffe sexual encounters are with other male giraffes. Every 16 out of 17 mountings in a 3 year Tanzanian national park study we’re male-on-male mountings. 9 of the 16 mountings featured an unsheathed penis.