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TIL veteran suicide rates are 22% higher than civilians

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e01L4 TIL of Labi Siffre. Dr. Dre wanted to sample his 1970s song "I got the..." for Eminem's "My Name Is" but Siffre, openly gay, initially refused, demanding sexist and homophobic lyrics be removed. Dre and Eminem made changes and the song became a massive hit.
780xP TIL Mel Brooks wrote the lyrics to the Sherwood Forest Rap
xV1Z7 TIL of the Bitter electromagnet, the strongest example of which produces a field 9 times stronger than an MRI machine, consuming almost 10% of a nuclear power station’s output to do so. Smaller versions were used to levitate frogs.
VBEX0 TIL Nazi Germany had a squadron of pilots dedicated to ramming Allied bombers at the end of WWII.
lo51A TIL an American man spent 12 years bulding his own 'castle' in the Nevada Desert from scratch. It features 22 rooms, including 2 kitchens, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and a man cave with home thater. It's now on the market for $699,900, down from $3.2 million.