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TIL New Zealand has the highest rate of vibrator ownership: 38%.

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X0VMP TIL that "for every increase of 100 meters (in elevation), suicide rates rise by 0.4 per 100,000 people"
616J TIL in order to capture the Generation X demographic, Coca Cola created an off-beat, existentialist soda in the mid 1990s. They named it “OK” because that was the only word more universally recognizable than “Coke.”
7rbjx TIL that the world's oldest prosthetic device, an artificial wooden toe was found on a 3,000-year-old mummy of an Egyptian woman in 1997. Now, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have learned a great deal about how the toe functioned, what it's made of, and how it was fabricated.
W75rA TIL Atticus Shaffer, who played Brick in The Middle, has brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta). It makes his bones fragile, but he used it to shape his unique character and still built a strong acting career.
ed45 TIL that, during the 1960s, many black civil rights protesters from Detroit were ‘diagnosed’ with schizophrenia (due to their 'hostile’ and 'aggressive’ behavior) and confined to asylums. Some protesters were locked up for more than thirty years and died in custody