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TIL French Montana Solitaire has a win-rate of 2%. It is very easy to learn, but requires immense strategy to play well.

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nW6Qr TIL a woman named Chante Mallard hit an unhoused man named Gregory Biggs, lodging him in her windshield, alive. She drove home and parked in her garage where she let him suffer for days before dying. She was only caught months later because she talked about it at a party.
kYpm TIL that the “sex” in names like Middlesex, Sussex, and Sexsmith comes from the Old English word “seax,” meaning “knife”
7xJM TIL During the first Gulf War the United States used bulldozers in an assault on entrenched Iraqi soldiers, burying between 80-250 people alive.
N7O4e TIL Christopher Reeve considered suicide after his accident. But all it took was one sentence from his wife for him to never think about suicide again: "...But I want you to know that I'll be with you for the long haul, no matter what. You're still you. And I love you."
yZVa TIL that former prime minister of New Zealand, David Lange, once wrote in an opinion piece for a NZ military periodical: “Our military forces are an arm of government, just like the Department of Social Welfare, although probably less able to inflict widespread harm.”