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TIL that many media outlets downplay reports of suicide to avoid "Suicide contagion," the phenomenon of vulnerable individuals seeing the action normalised and believing that they should be the ones to do it next.

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XENjR TIL Kidney failure means the kidney is unable to filter out waste normally and does not mean the kidney starts becoming necrotic.
rnPW TIL that “inner speech” (the voice you hear inside your head when you’re reading or thinking) is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx.
rN6Mo TIL Leonardo DiCaprio almost didn't get the role of Jack in Titanic because he didn't want to audition for it and only did so after James Cameron told him, among other things, "you're gonna read or you're not gonna get the part."
MegYb TIL Keanu Reeves’s stuntman in The Matrix, Chad Stahelski, directed the John Wick movies
4kVoN TIL about The Battle of Stamford bridge. Where a lone Viking warrior attempted to hold off an army of nearly 15,000 men. The unnamed viking was able to take down 40 men before falling.