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TIL Physicians have a suicide rate nearly 100% above average

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wol16 TIL the USS Scorpion was lost at sea in May 1968 with 99 men lost. The wreckage was found almost two miles deep, making it impossible to determine the cause of accident. Underwater acoustics out of the Canary Islands heard the exact time of the implosion but were unaware it was the sub sinking.
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