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TIL that 20 percent of people in Greenland have attempted suicide, compared to 5-6 percent in the UK and US

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awZkM TIL of Nicholas Vedeer who was the last surviving revolutionary war soldier in New York State when he died in 1862. He was photographed in his uniform sometime before his death giving an extraordinary picture of an actual American Patriot.
RkKj TIL in 1251 the king kept a polar bear in the Tower of London, which “attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames”
aRPb TIL that a 1996 study comparing arousal in homophobic and non-homophobic men found that only the homophobic men were aroused by MM gay porn , i.e., that homophobes are often closeted homosexuals.
OoVAR As well as extroverts and introverts, there are "ambiverts" who lie somewhere in the middle and actually, researchers predict about two-thirds of us are ambiverts.
XoxX TIL that Britain’s first ever speeding ticket was handed out in August 1896 after an East Peckham man was clocked doing 8mph in a 2mph zone.