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TIL suicides are most likely to occur on Monday.

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X0V7X TIL vocal fry is seen as a speech affectation in English, but in some languages, it changes the meanings of words. In Jalapa Mazatec: já (normal voice) means "tree" whereas já̤ (breathy voice) means “he wears” and já̰ (with vocal fry) means “he carries”
m1p0p TIL that there is a restaurant in Japan where you catch your own fish for them to cook.
VBOK4 TIL Mercedes Benz, the flagship car brand of the Nazis, was named after a Jewish girl, who's grandfather was a well regarded rabbi and intellectual in the Jewish community in Vienna.
jaLX TIL that old batteries are recycled into fertilizer to help grow corn.
5YePQ TIL of the White Rose which was a non-violent Nazi resistance group made of college students and a professor. It started by releasing pamphlets against the Nazi Party and ended with the execution of 6 students and the professor.