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TIL hotter weather increases both suicide rates and the use of depressive language on social media.

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OPpa TIL of Ryan Ferguson, a man convicted of and currently still serving time for a murder based on nothing more than the statements of two people who have admitted they lied.
BPXD TIL that 23 out of the 45 restaurants Gordon Ramsay owns has closed
ADEv7 TIL studies done by online stockbrokers where they analyse the results achieved by their clients found that the ones that did the best were those that had died (and the category that did second best had forgotten their log in details).
dD5xK TIL that adults who played Pokémon video games extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of each Pokémon. Stanford researchers identified the brain region activated by Pokémon characters.
9mYG TIL of David Kootook, a 14 year old Inuit boy who survived for 23 days in -40 degree weather after a plane crash in the Arctic. He refused offers by the pilot to eat the body of a fellow passenger and died of starvation 23 days later. Upon rescue, the pilot said “Welcome to the camp of a cannibal.”