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TIL that when you search “I want to kill myself” on google, or a related phrase, it will show the phone number for the national suicide prevention lifeline before the results.

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xVdYw TIL that in 1895 a swarm of Rocky Mountain locust, measuring 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide, blocked out the sun for five days. Thirty years later the locust was extinct.
bNL0 TIL I learned the 27th Amendment, proposed in 1789, took over 200 years to be ratified; it was all but forgotten until a law student discovered it in 1982 and campaigned for its ratification.
rRJQe TIL that the international airport in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (ULN), the largest international air facility in the country was named after Chinggis Khaan (Genghis Khan) to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the establishment of a Mongolian State on 21 December 2005.
vNP8 TIL A homeless woman in Tokyo stowed away in the cupboard of a stranger’s apartment, where she lived undetected for a year. She came out to eat food from the fridge and use the bathroom when the owner went out.
R5414 Til of the Peshtigo fire, the deadliest wildfire in world history that took place in Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1871. It occurred the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, and has been largely forgotten, though it killed 5 times as many as the Great Chicago Fire.