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TIL that over 50% of all suicides are associated with alcohol/other drug dependences

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60yJ TIL A substitute teacher was fired after she asked her 4th grade students for dating advice. She had her class to help her decide between two men she was seeing.
E1yXp TIL the odds of having the same finger print as someone else is 1 in 64 billion. Because there have been over 108 billion people to have ever lived on earth, many people, either dead or alive, will have to have the same fingerprint
xV4Ww TIL a collector of opium antiques accidentally became addicted to opium
kJ4eW TIL when the automatic telephone exchange was invented in the 1890s, it was advertised as providing a "girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, wait-less telephone" experience to contrast it with manual telephone exchanges operated by women
7rmv7 TIL that from elephants to mice, all mammals take approximately 21 seconds to urinate