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TIL a husband mercy shoots his wife (who was on life support because her initial suicide attempt was interrupted) then commits suicide next to her in the hospital so that their organs could be harvested to save other people.

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Oo7OR TIL of Zeynab bint Al-Harith, a jewish woman who poisoned the Islamic Prophet Muhammad because he killed her entire family.
x64Bo TIL about the 1875 Dublin whiskey fire, where a river of whiskey flowed through the streets, leading to 13 deaths from alcohol poisoning instead of burns or smoke inhalation.
dDj47 TIL some workers in Japan pay agencies to tell their employers that they are resigning
d8kGZ TIL that American evacuees must pay to be evacuated from anither country, andntheir passports are withheld until the bill is paid
wNk8 TIL an Ohio man bought 3 plots next to his wife and had his sons build a see-through plexiglass casket so that he could be buried sitting astride his custom-painted 1967 Electra Glide motorcycle.