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TIL that the staff of the 9/11 memorial place white roses on the names of any victims who would have been celebrating a birthday

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v1mZK TIL of Masaniello, an ordinary fisherman in Naples, who in 1647, organized a revolt against the government in a single day over a newly imposed fruit tax, and was declared by the people and Duke himself as “captain-general” of Naples... only to be assassinated 9 days later.
MejeA TIL that in German there are two verbs for eating, one exclusively for humans and one for animals. In fact, you can use the animal verb to imply (impolitely) that someone eats like an animal.
18wP TIL that 81% of suicide victims 24 or younger are male.
4mW5 TIL A Yale student snuck a card for the fictional book, the Necronomicon, into the university library’s card catalog.
xV8B1 TIL that in 1969 the Rolling Stones hired the Hell's Angels to provide security for their gig at the Altamont Free Concert for a fee of $500 worth of beer. A man by the name of Meredith Hunter Jr. drew a revolver at the stage and was stabbed and kicked to death by the Hell's Angels.