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TIL that US military suicides surpassed combat deaths in 2012

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GYQJ1 TIL: NYC yellow cabs and livery cars have a 4.5-inch amber flasher (aka a "trouble light") on the rear. Its serves as a way to alert outsiders that they are feeling threatened. It's like their version of a silent alarm banks use.
v1NNL TIL Tiffany & Co, a luxury jewelry and specialty retailer, started out as a stationery and fancy goods store
rRKn0 TIL as a result of seeing the athrocities of forced collectivisation in the USSR, including famines and between 6 and 7 million deaths, Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide.
vPBrK TIL that the mechanical lifting device, the "Jack", is named after different animals in multiple languages, a donkey in english, literally "Monkey" in portuguese, and literally "Cat" in spanish.
daLQ TIL that antifreeze is made artificially bitter because the original sweet taste makes it perfect for murdering/poisoning people