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TIL Oxford researches attributed 10,000 suicides to "the Great Recession" from 2008 to 2010 in North America and Europe

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ke67 TIL Melanie Griffith was nicknamed Brainiac in 1992, because she didn’t know Germans had “done bad things” to Jews during World War II until working on the set of Shining Through. She was 34.
NGbP TIL that horseshoe crabs have blue blood that is highly valued by the biotech industry and sells for $15,000 per quart (1 quart = roughly 1 liter).
XEPjR TIL that the song Vincent, written by Don McLean about how Vincent Van Gogh and his messages were never appreciated enough all his life, was a personal favorite of Tupac Shakur, and the rapper had it played on his deathbed, just before he passed away.
AM5x TIL in 2004 Bungie started a viral marketing campaign called I Love Bees which had participants from all over the world answering pay phones found by decoding GPS coordinates and times from the website. Hundreds participated, and not a single phone call was missed.
yOpl TIL former NFL quarterback Jon Kitna teaches high school algebra and helps turn around troubled students in what’s being called “the Kitna effect”