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TIL that in 2010 in the United States, 3 out of every 5 people who died from gunshot wounds took their own life

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NylM TIL that Pensacola Christian College prohibits sex, dancing, witchcraft, astrology, and more. The school also has segregated elevators and stairways.
8aM7P TIL that Captain Oates an Antarctic explorer died during the Terra Nova Expedition. Oates struggling with the journey back walked from his tent into a blizzard. He committed suicide in an act of self-sacrifice when his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival.
j6PMa TIL Zhang Zongchang, a Chinese warlord, had proclaimed that he would return only in a coffin if he was defeated in battle. When his forces were pushed back in a campaign, he was true to his word—he was paraded through the streets, sitting in his coffin and smoking a cigar
OrL1 TIL soft serve ice cream became popular after Tom Carvel’s ice cream truck got a flat tire. He started serving the melting ice cream to vacationers. Two years later he opened his first soft serve ice cream shop at the same site where his truck broke down.
xN9B TIL Japanese researchers created a smoke alarm for the hard of hearing that pumps super-spicy wasabi mist into the air.