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TIL that on average 22 vets in the US commit suicide per DAY. The average age of these vets is 60, most likely making them veterans of the Vietnam War.

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xNw1 TIL Rick Astley has only earned $12 in royalties from the ‘RickRoll’ meme
bRJj TIL a young man impersonated a police officer with an authentic-looking uniform and car and then set up his own fake police station where he kept records of possible crimes and interrogated “suspects” who were handcuffed to a chair
9YrPp TIL of Jolabokaflod, a Christmas Eve tradition in Iceland where friends and family get together to exchange books and then they all read them together while eating chocolate and drinking cocoa.
WRE9 TIL that Japan has strawberries called the ‘Scent of First Love’ that are completely white inside and out with red seeds
W7Nw9 TIL of miasma theory, an abandoned medical theory, that held that that diseases such as cholera were caused by “bad air”. Some academics suggested the theory extended to other conditions as well, such as becoming obese by inhaling the odor of food.