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TIL that Van Gogh most likely didn’t commit suicide. He was probably shot by two young boys who were playing with their father’s gun, which misfired; he protected them by saying he shot himself.

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EvLo TIL that President Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers because they went on strike. He also lifetime banned them from the FAA.
rRvXM TIL in 2005, when Steve Jobs began planning the iPhone, he had a choice to either shrink the Mac or enlarge the iPod. Jobs pitted the Macintosh and iPod teams against each other in an internal competition.
nWB7 TIL Mount Everest may be the tallest mountain in the world, but Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is the furthest away from the centre of the earth
BrvGD TIL a study found tobacco and tomato plants emit ultrasonic "squeals" when stressed. Microphones 4" away picked up the sounds when plants had stems cut/were under-watered: an average of 15 - 25 sounds within 1 hr from cutting, and 11 - 35 sounds per hr from drought.
J1bn8 TIL that in 2012 a movie theater in Beirut was raided for homosexual pornography and 36 men were subjected to anal examinations to determine their sexual orientation.