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TIL that suicide rates aren’t highest among teens or young adults, but the elderly in their seventies/eighties

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p8pg4 TIL that Stalin's poorly planned canal projects in the Amu Darya river and Syr Darya river to divert water to cotton fields was one of the major causes of drying of Aral Sea and completely destroying ecosystem around it which was the 4th largest lake at the time.
Ey9d TIL Youtuber PewDiePie makes over $2.2million annually
xVEKw TIL about the Thach Weave, a dogfighting maneuver developed in WW2 by the pilot John Thach. It allowed slower American planes to defeat their faster, more agile Japanese adversaries. It is still applicable today.
mZRy TIL: The decision to ground all planes in the U.S. on September 11th was made by one man, Ben Sliney, one of the FAA’s National Operations Managers. It was his first day in that position.
4kDno TIL that a recording of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Boots" is used by the US Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) school to train troops on how to survive if they are captured and tortured