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TIL that most firearms deaths in the US are suicides

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e0B06 TIL former NBA Champion and Chicago Bulls player Horace Grant continued to wear sports-goggles after receiving Lasik surgery to help kids who were teased over wearing glasses.
xV9Yb TIL that Academy award-winner Bong Joon-ho made "Okja"(2017) after watching Sergio Arguello’s “La Parka” (“The Reaper”), a film about a slaughterhouse worker who spent 25 years killing bulls, and Nikolaus Geyrhalter's “Our Daily Bread,” a film about EU factory-farming.
Zyxp TIL: In 2011, a man’s death was officially listed as “starvation” from a celery only diet.
LQkLP TIL people in the Middle Ages believed the equator to be impassably hot. Therefore, either Jesus would’ve have to appear separately to the Southern Hemisphere or its natives would be damned to Hell under the beliefs of the time.