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TIL that it was reported in 1987 a person committing suicide with four bullets in his own head, several other suicides were reported with two or more shots in the head, in medical journals

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oBar7 TIL that there are support houses in Tijuana and Mexico for the U.S. veterans who have been deported. One such support house has tracked at least of 400 deported veterans
NXvD8 TIL the Frozen Food Aisle was created as a result of Clarence Birdseye learning how to flash freeze fish from the Inuits in the 1920s
E1A7o TIL that Charles Darwin's children left doodles all over the original "On the Origin of Species" manuscript.
loBLG TIL the Vietnam Memorial was designed by a 21 year old architecture student for a class project. She got a B+ despite winning the national competition.