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TIL Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains

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bLMZ TIL In 1988, Ken Griffey Jr attempted suicide by swallowing 277 aspirin pills. On his failed attempt, Griffey, Jr. stated, “It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there. I got depressed. I got angry. I didn’t want to live.”
JYgQ TIL Marcus Luttrell, a former Navy SEAL, chased four men through four counties while armed with two 9mm Berettas because they killed his dog, DASY.
VWKZ TIL in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States.
BgRoL TIL many of the American Indians Columbus met in the Caribbean were not actually native but were instead Caribs- cannibals that had conquered the islands 200 years before his arrival. Cannibalism was so prolific that the English word itself comes from the Spanish name for Carib people- Caníbal.
KOew4 TIL that the the royal anthem could also be called “god save the king”