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TIL Suicide Rate is 3 times higher than Homicide Rate in the US

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epmDn TIL: Winston Churchill wrote an estimated eight to ten million words in more than forty books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, and at least two film scripts. In 1953, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
nWL47 TIL that several crew members onboard the Challenger space shuttle survived the initial breakup. It is theorized that some were conscious until they hit the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
6EE1Q TIL about "Schrodinger's Timmy," a character who, due to inconsistencies between level designers, is both alive and undead in the Warcraft Universe.
m1vZx TIL that the power symbol is just a combination of the "I" and "O" on a power switch
b9bQa TIL that Bob Marley was buried with his Gibson "Les Paul" guitar, a soccer ball, a marijuana bud, a ring that had been given to him by the Prince Asfa Wossen of Ethiopia, and a Bible. A month before his death, he was awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.