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TIL Jeremiah Clarke, an English composer, couldn’t decide whether to commit suicide by hanging or drowning himself, so he flipped a coin. The coin landed on its edge in the mud so he went home and shot himself instead.

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V9vG TIL of Emma Morano, the only living person to have been born in the 1800s. On November 29th she will be one of only 5 other people in history to have reached 117 years of age.
gMO54 TIL In 1994, the KKK applied to sponsor a section of the Interstate 55 highway near St. Louis, Missouri. The Supreme Court ruled the state could not refuse the KKK's sponsorship. But the state of Missouri took revenge by renaming the entire stretch of highway the "Rosa Parks Freeway."
X07B6 TIL A French mail carrier named Ferdinand Cheval spent 33 years building a castle (“Le Palais idéal”) out of stones he found on his mail routes.
AObB TIL If You Swear at Apple’s Automated Customer Service,They’ll Put You Through to a Human
GYJ1J TIL a young female Arctic fox fitted with a tracking device trekked 2,175 miles from Norway to Canada in 76 days, settling on Ellesmere Island in Canada. She traveled an average of 28 miles/day with a maximum pace of 96 miles/day, outpacing a previously tracked adult male fox by 1.4 times.