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TIL about 20% of Greenland's population (56,186) have attempted suicide.

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VMvmp til of r.a.p.p. (rockers against pay-to-play), a group in los angeles in the late eighties who organized protests against hollywood music venues that required performers to buy a large amount of pre-sale tickets before they would book the aforementioned act
6EaW TIL that the 1999 film “The Mummy” was so successful that the morning after it was released Universal Studios phoned the director and said “we need another one”
MVJA TIL in the 17th century the Roman Catholic Church ruled that the beaver was a fish so that the general prohibition on the consumption of meat on Fridays during Lent did not apply to beaver meat
wLm66 TIL that Hindu genealogy registers are kept by the Pandits in Haridwar, India. Some of them stretch across centuries, tracing family history of up to twenty prior generations. These registers are considered sacrosanct and have been used to settle legal disputes relating to inheritance.
worRo TIL horses were introduced to the American South in 1630, and had made it to Canada by 1730