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TIL That a highly publicized suicide will dramatically increase the number of suicides the following 2 months.

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0wOp5 TIL - After Joseph Stalin's Death, his successor embarked on a program of 'De-Stalinization' - systematically reversing most of Stalin's policies while in office, to end the "era of the cult of personality"
ANLLl TIL of FK Arkadag, a football club founded by the former Turkmenistan President in 2023. This non-corrupt team is so good that they were included in the Turkmenistan top flight right from its foundation and would go on to win 2 league titles and 1 Turkmenistan Cup, winning EVERY game along the way.
lPRB TIL English words for livestock (cow, sheep) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton) are French-based because in the Middle Ages the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats
w59J TIL blonde hair, colorful contact lenses, and wearing tape to pretend you had a nose job is in style for young Iranian women
QJeyL TIL an early script of the first James Bond film was rejected because the writers had turned Dr. No into a monkey.