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TIL Each year over 800,000 people worldwide die by suicide

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wowl6 TIL balloons are being used to provide internet access to remote areas. Multiple balloons fly at high altitude relaying internet between them from the ground to remote users
1an7P TIL that over the last 300 years, strange bronze dodecahedrons have been found among Roman archaeological sites. Archaeologists are still uncertain what their purpose was.
pLwe TIL Phil Collins wrote the captain planet theme song.
yVPJl TIL about Marie-Marguerite Duplessis Radisson (c. 1718 – after 1740) an enslaved Pawnee woman who challenged her master’s authority over her. Although unsuccessful, she was among the first enslaved people in New France to succeed in even having their case be heard by a court. She did not go quietly.
0YMN TIL Hawaii’s Big Island is home to 11 of the world’s 13 climate zones.