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TIL a Chinese man killed himself by leaping from the 7th floor of a mall after his girlfriend insisted on buying more shoes

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VM6A8 TIL that in 430 B.C.: Athens, the earliest recorded pandemic happened during the Peloponnesian War. After the disease passed through Libya, Ethiopia and Egypt, it crossed the Athenian walls as the Spartans laid siege. As much as two-thirds of the population died.
xXwg TIL In the 1930s Mickey Mouse attempted suicide after Minnie left him for another mouse.
njZG TIL there was a subspecies a human known as homo florsiensis which went extinct only 12,000 years ago. They grew no larger than 4 feet tall and have been nicknamed “hobbits” by scientists.
e0Mgn TIL that most of the tree is literally dead wood.
XE0yX TIL Ronnie O'Sullivan, considered one of the greatest snooker players of all time, once purposely missed a maximum score of 147 by one point because he didn't think the £10,000 prize was high enough.