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TIL that soldiers most prone to suicide are French horn players.

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Ykyx TIL homosexuality wasn’t explicitly banned in the old testament until re-translations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
p8bDG TIL: The United States Postal Service is older than the U.S. itself and Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General
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