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TIL that suicidal ideation is associated with inflammation in the brain and/or body

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rrY1 TIL that Denver Int'l Airport (at 53 sq miles) is larger than Manhattan, San Francisco & Miami and is the 2nd largest airport in the world.
P1ePO TIL that Steven Spielberg was rejected from USC's film school. He later became a trustee and large donor to the university.
8Y8 TIL the cheapest place to buy Japanese beer is everywhere, but Japan, due to ridiculous japanese taxation of malt.
rWw4 TIL that the co-founder of Paypal, Max Levchin, coded non-stop for 5 days without sleep and then finished the product 1 hour before he received $4.5 million in funding
VBkrQ TIL of the SS Birma, which steamed to aid The Titanic. They arrived too late to help, but held a memorial with a British flag they created themselves, and also took photographs of icebergs in the vicinity of the sinking.