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TIL a Japanese postmaster under investigation for embezzlement deployed three suicide attempts in succession before succeeding: hanging himself, leaping off a cliff, then drowning.

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4XBXg TIL that after the death of Pope Julius II, (the militaristic "warrior pope" who emulated Caesar) the scholar Erasmus wrote a satirical dialogue in which the pope is denied entrance at the gates of heaven, ending with him planning to invade Paradise using the same tactics he applied when alive.
EgQP TIL Only 10% of Tourette’s sufferers spontaneously utter swear words.
aw76L TIL that the clocks in microwaves and stoves use the frequency of the power grid to keep time instead of quartz crystals. As the frequency can fluctuate, this explains why they keep poor time.
Egnjd TIL years before playing Dracula, Bela Lugosi had served as a lieutenant in World War I. At one point, he was helping protect a forest and left his post at a tree to give an officer first aid. When he came back, he found the tree to have been blown into many pieces and wept out of gratitude to God.
5er9 TIL Activision donates money to help U.S. military veterans find employment.