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TIL Suicide rates and the amount media reports on suicide have a positive association; however, if media reports on positive coping with suicidal thoughts, it has protective effects

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Q4bk TIL in May of 1945, a Sunday School Teacher and 5 children became the only Mainland Casualties of WWII when they found a Japanese “Balloon Bomb” in Rural Oregon. The last words of the Teacher were: “Look what I found, dear”
mxYXv TIL That during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese pilot crash-landed on the island of Ni'ihau and with the help of Japanese-speaking residents he terrorized the island before being killed.
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