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TIL that anti ligature coat hooks exists and death by coat hanger is a big enough problem for this solution to exist.

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Wkdwo TIL when he retired in 1999, Wayne Gretzky held or shared 61 NHL records. 21 years later, he still holds or shares 60 NHL records
XE1DD TIL When Taiwan's president in 1995, Lee Teng-hui, had stopped in Honolulu to refuel his plane, the U.S government refused to grant him a visa and forced him to spend the night on his plane. Lee later complained that he was "being treated as a second-class leader."
8ekJ8 TIL the reason why old sports photos often have a blue haze is because the arenas were filled with people smoking cigarettes
Y7Vod TIL that the first message sent from the beaches of Normandy on D-Day was sent in Comanche from Code Talker, Private First Class Larry Saupitty. His message was “Tsaakʉ nʉnnuwee. Atahtu nʉnnuwee,” which translates to: “We made a good landing. We landed in the wrong place.”
6NEm TIL 30-ft-long Manatees called Steller’s Sea Cows lived into modernity… within 27 years of being found by European hunters, they were extinct.