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

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D19QJ TIL DNA tests of 39 of Adolf Hitler's living relatives suggest he had both Jewish and African ancestors.
neDVd TIL there is speculation that Martín Alonso Pinzón, the captain of the Pinta in Christopher Columbus' fleet and a major financial backer of the expedition, had already been to the New World in a voyage with French navigator Jean Cousin in 1488.
bgQa TIL That Wernher Von Braun, the man who designed the V2 rocket for the Germans, always wanted to go to space, and when the first V2 hit London, he said “The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”
WknAB TIL about Ming, the oldest animal ever discovered at 507 years old. The researchers studying it accidentally killed it
8eMbP TIL that United Airlines once had a computer system glitch and accidentally revived flight numbers 175 and 93 before correcting the error