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TIL in 2012 there more deaths in active military due to suicide than war death

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e0yJ4 TIL Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The 1929 Lateran Treaty ended the dispute between the Italian government & the Catholic Church, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (> $1 billion today) for the Papal states.
B0dK TIL that it took almost 100 years for Canada to get it’s own flag (February 15, 1965) since it’s founding date in 1867
VBYeD TIL About Pink Floyd, a wild flamingo that escaped from a zoo in Wichita KS in 2005 and has been evading capture ever since.
Eg5vP Today I learned that Minnesota is the only US state with a French motto
EbkP TIL that someone did a nutritional analysis on Crayola crayons, which contain 8g fat and 150 calories.