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TIL 40% of all female suicides are from India

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Eyyx TIL that because of its prison system, the US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.
pY4wG TIL Harvey Ball, the man who designed the popular smiley face graphic picture, never applied for a trademark for the smiley image and only earned $45 for his work. His son once said: “He was not a money-driven guy. He used to say: ‘Hey, I can only eat one steak at a time, drive one car at a time.'”
awvAJ TIL the first cup of coffee brewed in England was by an Oxford college student in 1637, who used it stay up all night and study.
rNeZw TIL about Arthur Arndt, a German physician whose family became the largest known group of Jews to survive by hiding in Nazi Germany.
oRyDW TIL that May 5 is when Children's Day is celebrated in Japan