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

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8axDV TIL that during WWI, no foreign coaling stations were available to Germany, and its coast was blockaded. So the Germans outfitted a sailing ship as a commerce raider and disguised it as a Norwegian woodcarrier - it sailed past the British blockade and captured 15 ships over the next two years.
97GD TIL despite over 5 million square feet of floor space, the Pentagon in Washington was constructed in such a way that no point in the building is more than a 10 minute walk from any other point in the building.
VMxGm TIL: After surviving Auschwitz, Lili Jacob discovered the album containing these photographs in a drawer of a bedside table in an abandoned SS barracks while she was recovering from typhus. Had she not found that album we wouldn't have a visual sense of the selection process
ob9R TIL as of 2011, there are still ~170 trees in Hiroshima that survived the atomic bomb; they are called the ‘Hibakujumoku’
nW45B TIL there was a guy who was suspected to be Jack the Ripper, because his last words before he was hanged for an unrelated crime was ""I am Jack The...", but a modern biographer suggest that he might have been saying "I am ejaculating"