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TIL 40% of all female suicides are from India

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WJPL TIL - Alf Adams came up for the idea of the ‘strained-layer quantum well laser’ walking on the beach with his wife. He paused for a moment and asked her to stop talking for a moment to let him think, these lasers are now used in almost every household today
78ror TIL Massachusetts -- famous for its bad drivers and bad roads -- has the lowest road fatality rate of any state
0dP5L TIL a remote northern Quebec mining town has a 1.3km long, 5 storey apartment building that serves as a windbreak for the rest of town and lets residents stay indoors all winter
PmOZ TIL that an Iraqi doctor with insurgent ties killed 43 military patients during the Iraq War by “treating” their bleeding with anticoagulants.
R4Ow TIL Roald Dahl wrote a sequel to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ where they use the glass elevator to go into space and fight aliens. Another sequel, 'Charlie in the White House’, remains unfinished.