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

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4XYjN TIL in 1963 that a 21-year-old rock and roll star named Ulysses Baxter pushed a peanut up Pikes Peak mountain with his nose! He had attached a salad spoon to his nose and pushed for 8 days until he reached the summit. The craziest part is that he wasn't even the first to do this!
NXMdN TIL about the graniteville train crash. In 2005 two Norfolk trains collided and released enormous amounts of toxic chlorine gas. 10 people were killed and over 250 had to be treated for chlorine gas exposure
GO65 TIL the CNN “Technology Specialist” who speculated that “the hacker known as ‘4Chan’” was “a systems administrator who knew his way around and how to hack things” is now a radio anchor and technology contributor for Fox News.
DQ4Zg TIL: On July 23, 2013 Matt Dyer a lawyer from Maine was mauled by a polar bear on a hiking trip in Torngat Mountains National Park and luckily survived. Despite all that, a year later Dyer was back at the location of the attack.
9YbMp TIL that in 1938, a physicist proposed an exact number for the total number of protons in the observable universe.