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TIL a man who committed suicide wrote a 1,905 page suicide note, complete with a bibliography and works cited.

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X0M9k TIL that during his first election, John Nance Garner was opposed in the primary by Mariette Rheiner. Following Garner's win in the primaries, the two began dating and married in 1895. Mariette went on to serve as Second Lady of the United States during her husband's tenure as vice president.
ADjoo TIL that 14.7% of men that had a vasectomy reported pain in the testicles (PVPS) that didn't go away at least 7 months after the procedure, with 0.9% describing the pain as "quite severe and noticeably affecting their quality of life".
wLe1Y TIL that Bermuda had no indigenous population at the time of its discovery, and there is no evidence of any people having lived there before the British settled in 1609, effectively making the British the first people to ever establish a human population on the island
7peM TIL Sleeping Beauty was raped by the prince in the original Grimm Fairy Tales
pLnp TIL the CIA backed the genocide of communists in Indonesia that killed approximately 500,000 people and the leader of which became the president of the UN General Assembly.