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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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BrmYW TIL the husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Daniel Westling, was born on the day her father, King Gustav XVI, ascended the throne.
wL7jo TIL a song called FIVE MINUTES which begins with the recording made of then-US-President Ronald Reagan's "We begin bombing in five minutes" joke speech, which is then sampled and looped throughout the remainder of the track.
emQg TIL that there currently is a 360º camera attached to a helicopter that will fly around Norway. You can control the camera.
6llm TIL A 6ft 7in man named Peter Freuchen escaped from almost certain blizzardly death by fashioning a shiv out of his own feces and digging his way out of his snowy grave. He also amputated his own toes, wrote 12 books, and won the 64,000 dollar show (that’s much more now with inflation).
yVN9l TIL that the Ancient greek believed that a good-looking man is an indicator of his inner goodness while a woman's outer beauty is a reflection of her inner evilness. "She was evil because she was beautiful, and beautiful because she was evil"