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TIL that Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world.

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9YAWm TIL that there exists a species of sharks that can live up to 500 years. That means that some of them lived through the founding of the US, industrial revolution, and two world wars and are still alive today
nWBmB TIL Richard Dedekind, who worked with Georg Cantor on infinite sets, was an exceptional mathematician but he never went beyond being a high school teacher in his hometown. Cantor wanted to enter University of Berlin but was prevented from doing so as his new branch of mathematics was rejected
9YOV7 TIL In 2014, Walter Williams was pronounced dead. Paperwork was completed, he was put in a body bag and taken to a funeral home. When he was taken to the embalming room, his legs began to move and the coroner noticed him lightly breathing. He was still alive. Two weeks later he died for real.
D07e TIL, “No one in the U.S. has died from a black widow spider bite in over 10 years.”
nl1r TIL that Australia is going to open the worlds largest brothel. It is a 3 storey high $12.2 million “Super Brothel”.