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TIL of Evelyn McHale. The Most Beautiful Suicide (link in comment)

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jNBZN TIL that the wife of Japanese fighter pilot Hajime Fujii drowned herself and their two daughters in 1944. She wanted to unburden him of his fatherly duties so he could focus on his military obligations.
4nmg TIL that a trivia book author included a fake entry that said ‘Philip’ was the first name of TV detective 'Columbo,’ who has no first name. When Trivial Pursuit included 'Philip Columbo’ as an answer, the author sued for $300 million, saying they had stolen their trivia from his books.
d8ZWQ TIL Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over.
e0DQE TIL that modern gunpower contains it's own oxidizer for combustion, meaning you could fire a gun in space.
69dZl TIL The earth's circumference is roughly 40,000km because the metre was based off the circumference of earth. The metre was originally a ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator, 1/4th of the circumference. Now a metre is defined by the travel of light in caesium frequencies