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TIL The Vessel in Hudson Yards Manhattan has been temporarily closed due to the large numbers of suicides at the top.

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XElWR TIL that statistically speaking, you are most likely to die within one month of your birthday. This is known as the "Birthday effect."
pk1b TIL that Frank Buckles, the last surviving soldier of World War I, lived for 110 years and died in 2011. When asked about his secret for long life, he simply offered, “When you start to die… don’t.”
M7RvA TIL that they’re called hamburgers because the term comes from Hamburg in Germany, where a minced beef style dish was first created
oBO5R TIL A man in Michigan whose house was set to be demolished, switched house numbers with his neighbor, so that they ended up demolishing the wrong house. The crews demolished the wrong house.
vPmKK TIL that unlike motherhood, fatherhood is not mentioned in Universal Declaration of Human rights.