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TIL Americans are twice as likely to kill themselves than be killed by another person

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kJgN7 TIL $157K worth of stolen Magic: the Gathering and Dungeon & Dragons gaming cards were recovered after they were turned in by the party who bought them from the thieves for $4K. The cards had been stolen at Gen Con 2023 when 2 men simply walked out with a pallet that had 115 boxes of the cards on it
X0pyk TIL That Spanish noble women used to eat clay pots, the habit caused a paler complexion (due to anemia), which was considered attractive, It also served as contraceptive (Since the negative health effects caused a delay in menstrual cycles). Eating the clay pots caused death in some cases.
woeoP TIL that the failed Superman film which had cast Nicolas Cage ending up costing Warner Brothers around $30 million. $20 million of that was paid to Nicolas Cage, his guarantee if the production halted.
epDkJ TIL that Hermione was based on J.K. Rowling: the author loosely based the character on herself when she was 11 years old, and chose an otter as Hermione's patronus as it's her favourite animal. She also took the name from Shakespeare's The Winter’s Tale and didn't want a popular name
KY9EB TIL The Last Widow of a Civil War Veteran died in 2020