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TIL age group 45 to 54 years old accounts for 80% of all U.S. suicides.

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9Y98r TIL people who quit smoking before the age of 40 may live as long as people who never smoked at all. Researchers found a smoker loses roughly 10 years of life to the habit but regained most of that time if they quit before 40. The benefit is increased the sooner before 40 you quit.
nWpA9 TIL about a Burial Tax: a local tax was in place requiring a fee to be paid for "perpetual" burial. Some bodies for which the tax was not paid were disinterred and are in a museum
ZpM5o TIL that the Italian city of Naples was not founded by the Romans, but was founded by the Greeks in 600 BCE; its original name was Neopolis ("New City").
XGpE TIL: Platypuses have no teats, they secrete their milk through their pores.
x6oB7 TIL female ferrets can literally die from horniness when on heat. Only mating or medical intervention can save them.