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WkO14 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
ReE4 TIL While studying late, 1905 Brahmin (priest class) students of Madras (South India) used to tie their hair to a nail in the wall to keep themselves from dosing off.
YKnA TIL that all navel oranges are united clones from a solitary tree change that happened very nearly 200 years back in Brazil. All things considered, they might all be considered product of that unique tree, and are all hereditarily indistinguishable.
6o0Q TIL Chemotherapy drugs to fight cancer were discovered in WW1 where the effects of mustard gas on surviors reduced the amount of rapidly dividing cells like white blood cells. First drug developed based on this research was called Mustine.
gr7k9 TIL that a Brazilian priest, as part of a fundraiser, sat in a chair tied to 1,000 balloons and sent himself up. He reached a height almost twice as high as he expected. Two weeks later he was found dead in the ocean.