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TIL pirates wore gold earings so if they were ever washed up on sea,the earings would pay for their funeral.

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45L6 TIL in 1995 a man in Australia attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a shotgun. When that didn’t work he used a pistol to shoot himself in the head, then used the shotgun again on his throat and finally died after one last shotgun blast to the heart
KO6v9 TIL Russian Navy Officer Vasili Arkhipov was credited with being the single vote that prevented a Soviet Nuclear Strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
x6J0k TIL that our brains use a method called chunking to group random information into meaningful parts, making it easier to understand and recall. This helps us read jumbled text and manage tasks more efficiently.
Ya8Z TIL Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, prime minister of Iceland, is the country’s first female prime minister and was the world’s first openly gay head of government
gQA9 TIL a computer program that analyses linguistics outed J.K. Rowling as the author of “The Cuckoo’s Calling”, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.