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TIL Michael Phelps considered suicide after the 2012 Summer Olympics. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation to help other people with mental illness.

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Odmg TIL of a chimp named Nim Chimpsy that used sign language to express that he wanted to smoke marijuana
Ve1D TIL There’s as much as $13 million worth of metals in the sewage produced every year by a million-person city
LQD10 TIL Argentina forced Mcdonald's in their country to sell the Big Mac at an artificially low price to improve their country's performance on the Big Mac index; effectively hiding their country's inflation
aeZN TIL that David Hayter(the voice of Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid), wrote the screenplay for Watchmen.
mEKx TIL according to BP at today’s production levels there are 53.3 years’ worth of oil left in the earth.