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TIL that the US Postal Inspection Service has a list of members who have died in the line of duty. Half of them have the cause of death listed as “Gunfire”.

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m1w4E TIL letter 'w' is the Japanese version of LOL
Oo0jX TIL that Satoshi Tajiri the creator and father of Pokemon is a high-functioning autistic
mpny TIL that in 1962, the Tanganyika laughter epidemic caused contagious laughter in 1000 people in Tanzania, and resulted in 14 schools being shut down.
xX0o TIL that Microsoft and Sony charge developers $40,000 to patch games
JYvyB TIL that chlamidial cells are strange organisms closely related to blue-green algae that have DNA like bacteria but can only reproduce parasitically in foreign cells like a virus.