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TIL: More Canadian soldiers died from suicide than from combat in recent 10 year war in Afghanistan

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rRyv0 TIL that a year is a leap year not only if it's divisible by 4 -- it also has to be divisible by 400 if it's a century year.
N7eRQ TIL that if tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai. This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas Mandarin uses cha.
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