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

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dexE TIL nicotine withdrawals have a negative impact on time perception which causes one to feel as if time passes very slowly when quitting the use of tobacco.
xVllo TIL Cheerios will send you wildflower seeds for free. Suitable as a garden plant across the country, the seed mix will help to create new places for honeybees to thrive.
PdPw TIL J. Cole graduated college in 2007, but didn’t receive his diploma until 8 years later because he owed money for a library book he never paid for.
WkG9 TIL that, in 2008 “more than 36,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S., and more than 20,000 of these overdose deaths were from prescription drugs” according to the CDC.
VBENm TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down