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TIL that suicide is no longer considered a crime in most places.

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jNBmM TIL of Devon Lee who on Feb 23rd, 1885, was attempted to be hung 3 separate times, but all 3 failed due to a faulty door that worked perfectly fine when Lee wasn't on deck. After the 3rd failed attempt, due to the law, he was returned to his cell and eventually acquitted some years later.
d6Q7 TIL Al-Qaeda initially planned to fly hijacked jets into nuclear installations, rather than the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They had decided against the attack on nuclear power plants “for the moment” because of fears it could “get out of control”.
grnjL TIL among cannabis users, 22% of people have cannabis use disorder, 13% have cannabis addiction, and 13% have cannabis dependence. Cannabis dependence risk increases to 33% for young people who engage in cannabis regularly (daily or weekly)
VMyr0 TIL that the equivalent of the English-language idiom "comparing apples and oranges" in Serbian is "grandmothers and toads"; in Romanian it's "the grandmother and the machine gun" or "the cow and the longjohns"; and the equivalent Danish idiom is "What is highest, the Round Tower or a thunderclap?"
8eypb TIL 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the most expensive movie ever made, with a total cost of $447 million. Disney reduced costs using the UK’s Film Tax Relief, receiving $86.6 million in reimbursements. The movie grossed $2.1 billion worldwide.