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TIL veteran suicide rates are 22% higher than civilians

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Zp9JB TIL when David Gilmour was having trouble helping an equally frustrated Syd Barrett learn a guitar solo, Gilmour recorded the solo himself and then played it back to Barrett in reverse. Upon hearing the reversed playback Barret was instantly able to play the solo forwards
loDm1 TIL in 1929, researchers at Princeton University turned a living cat into a telephone.
9wRm6 TIL In 2018, a research team from Mansoura University in Egypt discovered "Mansourasaurus shahinae", Egypt’s first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in decades. it was Found in the Western Desert near Dakhla Oasis, dating back 80 million years, it was published in journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
8RNG TIL British police cars are issued with a teddy bear as standard, so as to console children involved in accidents.
GJM4 TIL that Dexter Holland, the front man of Offspring, is a PhD student helping study how… microRNA sequences can help fight against HIV. And while he was a young grad student at USC, he came up with the phrase “gotta keep ‘em separated” while waiting for two petri dishes to cool off.