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TIL that the gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt in 1865 is one of the few one-on-one gun duels of the Western conquest that occured as depicted in dime novels and westerns such as High Noon or the Dollar Trilogy.

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kJ51g TIL there are several different categories to drowning and 90% of deaths from drowning involve a relatively small amount of liquid.
eaXg TIL of the puzzling suicide note of a man who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge which read “Absolutely no reason except I have a toothache”
nB1G TIL Alice Walton (Walmart heir) killed a pedestrian in a driving accident and was never charged. She has also be arrested for DWI twice but never charged.
9YDVG TIL that despite being aligned with Nazi Germany in WWII, Finnish Jews were not persecuted by the government of Finland. The Finnish Army set up the only field synagogue on the Eastern Front and Finnish Jews fought with Germans in support of the Axis Powers.
neoXd TIL that there is a pseudo-medical credential called Pastoral Medicine (PSc.D or D.PSc), or "Bible-based" medicine, which is enabling people to call themselves "doctor" and treat patients in all 50 states and 30 countries.