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TIL 85% of soldiers who commit suicide have never seen combat and more than half haven’t been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.

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e00bL TIL 61% of US soldiers killed in the Vietnam war were less than 20 years old. The average age of deaths being 23 years old.
k8b7 TIL - At $150 Billion… The International Space Station is the most expensive thing ever built.
8aP6V TIL up until 1981, a purely heterosexual form of polyamorous marriage was widely practiced among the Tibetans: each man had many wives, and each woman had many husbands. This practice is still common today in rural areas.
R7ak1 TIL of the Japanese concept of “Wa”, in which all people strive to put the betterment of the overall society above that of the individual. It is considered an integral part of Japanese society.
bEy9 TIL a man was writing articles and reporting about deaths of people who he actually killed. He was arrested when they found out he had more information than the police.