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TIL that the highest rates of suicide are not in Winter but instead in Spring/early Summer and are linked to inflamation caused by allergies.

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EPe7 TIL This saturday in America you can put nonperishable food items into your mailbox to be picked up by your postman. They will be donated to local food pantries!
VBGN8 TIL that leopard slugs have penises on their heads. They're hermaphroditic, and mate by hanging from a mucus rope and entwining their bodies counter-clockwise, and exchange sperm from the penises on their heads.
P1Y8g TIL that because Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle's B25 took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo in 1942, he was honorarily authorized to wear gold Naval Aviator Wings in uniform.
KOAZR TIL Bobby Fischer who is considered the greatest chess champion of all time lived the last 16 years of his life as a fugitive after the U.S government put a warrant out for his arrest for violating a trade embargo against Yugoslavia by participating in a chess match there.
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