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TIL white males accounted for 70% of all suicides in 2013.

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rLeM TIL a NJ store owner’s shop got flooded in 1883, soaking his entire stock of taffy in Atlantic Ocean salt water. When a little girl came in and asked if he had taffy, he jokingly offered her some “salt water taffy. The girl happily accepted, word got around, and salt water taffy was born.
loXXV TIL in 1995 a Nigerian fraudster sold a non-existent airport to a Brazilian bank for $242 million dollars.
Z8e0D TIL that stagecoaches were called so because they travelled in small "stages" of 10-15 miles
neBx9 TIL To cover up My Lai massacre, Hugh Thompson jr. was quickly awarded Distinguished Flying Cross with citation of fabricated events that included promoting Vietnamese–American relations in the operational area. Thompson threw away the citation.
EZlV TIL: Kate Upton doesn’t have to model for money, she’s rich! Great Grandfather was co-founder of Whirlpool.