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TIL that the US has a higher suicide rate than Japan
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TIL about the 1916 Black Tom island explosion, one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions ever. The explosion of 2 million pounds of ammunition and 100K pounds of TNT damaged the nearby Statue of Liberty and was felt in Philadelphia and Maryland. German saboteurs were the likely culprits.
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TIL about Mexico's informal rehabilitation centers, were "kidnapping teams" are dispatched with the help of family members to abduct addicts and take them to private rehabilitation centers. Many patients are held against their will, suffer both physical and mental torture, and suicides are common.
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TIL that the oldest known tortoise of modern times lived for 256 years, from 1750-2006. This unfortunately makes him the oldest virgin ever known with no records of his progeny.
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TIL there is an endangered indigenous group of people living in the eastern Amazon forests of Brazil called Awá-Guajá. They are known for smiling all the time.
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TIL that geologists have discovered a fault system that could make North America a much closer neighbor to Europe