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TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.

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mxOby TIL about Tim McGrath, who lost half his face to soft tissue cancer, and had to live with exposed flesh for a year after several reconstructions surgeries failed. WARNING: extremely graphic nsfw images in link.
6WWm TIL the Flame of Peace in Hiroshima, Japan has burned since 1964 in honor of the bomb victims and will be extinguished only when all nuclear weapons are removed from the world and the Earth is free from nuclear threat.
rRAr0 TIL Suicide from overwork (Karojisatsu) and death from overwork (Karaoshi) are so prevalent in Japan that they have words for them.
pYda8 TIL The Apple iPod was discontinued in 2022.
loNB5 TIL That your fingers prune after some time in water as a nervous system response, not as a result of absorbing water.