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TIL the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. for 2011 was suicide.

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D1pOP TIL that Daft Punk's album "Discovery" was turned into a feature length anime film. Having no sound effects or dialogue, the movie was hailed as "the best animated movie made in 2003"
R70l1 TIL that ancient Egyptian's tried to domesticate cheetahs as house pets, and also tamed them to be used for hunting.
NXVDe TIL that flashing lights in the sky during a seismic event called “earthquake lights” are a thing
Lk4bv TIL that about a quarter of women in the desert nation of Mauritania are obese because of a beauty standard that finds overweight women attractive. Slim women are viewed as sickly and in some rural areas young girls are force fed to make them look more desirable to men.
xgx7 TIL Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.