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TIL New Zealand has a very high rate of teen suicide and in 2017 had the highest rate of any wealthy country in the world.

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kOVGE TIL of John Smeaton, an airport worker who kicked an attempted suicide bomber in the nuts. He would later be awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.
Qp1L TIL a blue whale can consume as many calories in a single moutful as an average person consumes in roughly 180 days
BgBxd TIL 'America' was first used to for South America, named for Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci
woEBP TIL that Frank Sinatra carried 10 dimes and was also buried with them in his pocket after his son Frank Jr. was kidnapped in 1963. The kidnappers demanded he communicate by payphone only, and he was afraid he wouldn't have enough coins for the conversations.
Y94G TIL there are an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish living in the U.S., with 30,000 of them thought to be in New York City. One Irish-born neighborhood in the Bronx is estimated at having 40% of its immigrants as undocumented.