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TIL in 2010 2/3rds of all gun deaths in the U.S. were from suicide.

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xVDg1 TIL that, since ascending the throne, Queen Elizabeth does not accept any honorary degrees, as this would technically place her under the jurisdiction of the chancellor of whichever university had bestowed the degree, a position deemed unsuitable for a reigning monarch.
Ryw8 TIL of an ancient roman poem about how to get over someone who doesn’t love you. It involves keeping busy by farming, hunting and traveling, having a lot of sex with multiple partners, avoiding being alone, and staying away from romantic works of art
jNdRj TIL strippers make $78,000 a year — just as much as the average American attorney.
0dOQA TIL there is a cat named Sanjuro, who is the samurai lord of a Japanese castle.
Vxv0 TIL that researchers believe humans have worn clothes for at least 170,000 years. They know this because pubic lice evolutionarily diverged from head lice about 170,000 years ago, and pubic lice need to live under clothing to survive.