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TIL Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. For every soldier killed on the battlefield about 25 veterans are died by their own hands in 2012.

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MePYK TIL that the common cultivated strawberry does not occur in nature. It is a hybrid of the Virginia wild strawberry and the Chilean beach strawberry, invented in France in the 18th century.
05yR TIL Robin Williams was agreed to be paid $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting (estimated at the time to be worth $1 million) as a way of thanking him for his work.
AD1dB TIL that the US was so short on rubber during WWII that it imposed a speed limit of 35mph to preserve car tires. It was called the "Victory Speed Limit".
nWmbB TIL: ARk Storm 2.0 (Atmospheric River Storm) will happen every 25 - 50 years, engulfing the great basin
obJA TIL Scientology leader David Miscavige’s mother-in-law was found dead with three gunshot wounds to the chest and one to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide.