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TIL oxygen deprivation worsens depression, which has caused Colorado Springs, CO (with its high altitude) to become the second most suicidal city in the U.S.

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Br9XK TIL that the Mexican language Ayapeneco is dying out. It is only spoken fluently by two people, but they refuse to talk to each other.
4k7a TIL that the language spoken by Leeloo in film 5th Element was invented by director Luc Besson and refined by Milla Jovovich. By the end of filming they were able to have full conversations in this language.
D1mQD TIL flypaper used to be made with metallic arsenic, which some people would soak in water to extract the poison. Fly paper had been used in several murder cases.
78LRZ TIL that clear coke exits. Everything's gone downhill since.
N9xe TIL that JRR Tolkien never said that hobbits have disproportionately large feet. They were an invention of illustrators that were copied in many other adaptations and derivative works.