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TIL that white men 85 and older have a suicide rate that is six times that of the overall national rate.

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OGX7 TIL the nonsense song that Rafiki sings to Simba in The Lion King is actually a common Swahili children’s song
wWMP TIL Elvis Presley once flew from Graceland to Denver and back in one night just for a sandwich. ‘The Fool’s Gold Loaf’ is a hollowed out loaf of bread filled with peanut butter, jelly, and a pound of bacon. It has an estimated 8,000 calories
0wW8N TIL that Date Stone Beetles females mate with their first son, proceed to eat him and his siblings of which all happen to be male, and then produce a second bigger batch of eggs, of which 90% are females.
yQMJV TIL that the banana is a herb.
4OQg TIL that after a girl in his community was killed by a red-light runner, a 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. With his neighborhood cheering him on, he smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop. (x-post /r/China)