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TIL Suicides fell by 40% on weekends after IDF soldiers were stopped from taking their guns home with them on weekends.

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9YdJp TIL that Papua New Guinea's government has officially endorsed sign language as the country's fourth official language, alongside English, Tok Pisin and Motu.
WG98 TIL that suicide candidates in 18th-century Denmark were afraid to take their own lives because they believed it would send them to hell. Instead, they resorted to killing other people to receive the death penalty and repented before execution, believing that doing so would send them to heaven.
aw68A TIL about John Sedgwick a US general who asked his men during a battle "Why are you ducking? They couldn't hit an elephant from this distance." Sedgwick was shot under the left eye by an enemy sharpshooter as he finished the sentence.
JWjk TIL The Constitution of Nepal states that if the President is male, the Vice President must be female, and vice versa
VMQNB TIL that a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40 per cent more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office.