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TIL that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US

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oR1MR TIL that the first African American Governor of a US State, Douglas Wilder, wasn’t elected until 1990.
WkQA4 TIL in 1946, a man claiming to be a detective gave a pedestrian a camera and asked her to take a picture of a suspect. The "detective" turned out to be a gangster, the "suspect" turned out to be his ex-wife, and the "camera" turned out to be a concealed shotgun firing via the shutter button.
oBM0o TIL as more people work from home, Walmart, Gap, Old Navy, and other retailers have reported that sales for tops are up, whereas sales for pants are down.
grdp8 TIL Present-day giant pandas are estimated to have diverged from their closest relatives, all other bears 20 million years ago, based on molecular data
epZDE TIL Muhammad Ali dedicated his defeat of Joe Frazier in the 1975 boxing heavyweight championship to one of his favorite actors, Christopher Lee, best known at the time for playing Dracula & Bond villain Scaramanga