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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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1bwD TIL that of married couples the least likely to get divorced is a black woman married to a white man
wLYJ6 TIL In 2010, the Forest Service made Betty White an honorary forest ranger. White said in previous interviews that she wanted to be a forest ranger as a little girl but that women were not allowed to do that then. When White received the honor, more than 1/3 of Forest Service employees were women.
pYNpN TIL that the founder of Versace was murdered by a serial killer
5YrKP TIL the original founding population of Native Americans was about 250 people. At their peak, there were about 18 million in North America and 40 million from Alaska to Argentina. It’s estimated that the population dropped by almost 90% within a few centuries after the arrival of the Europeans.
N7p56 TIL prior to 2017, Jimmy John's made employees sign a non-compete agreement, which prohibited them from working at any other rolled sandwich business within two miles of a Jimmy John's