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TIL in the final episode of the cartoon Tom & Jerry,both Tom and Jerry commit suicide

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a806J TIL that in 1998 the World Trade Center was robbed by three criminals hired by the North Jersey Mafia. $1.6 million dollars were stolen from the 11th floor of the North Tower. This would be the last of a series of crimes committed at the WTC until 9/11.
DZ6Y TIL that a man was believed to have jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge. A suicide note and his jacket were found and he was presumed dead. 1 year later he was found in Texas selling bibles.
d8ZZ9 TIL at least once a day, your immune system destroys a cell that could have become a cancer cell if it lived
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n11b TIL that a chicken farmer sued the US government in 1946 after military planes flew too low over his farm, startling and causing his chickens to kill themselves by flying into the walls. He claimed the government should compensate him because he owned the air above his farm