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TIL: More cops in the USA died from suicide than any other cause in 2017

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oE87 TIL American adults(18+) have an average of two close friends they are able to confide in with 4% of adults having none.
PXwG TIL NASCAR Legend Dale Earnhardt, along with many other NASCAR drivers, resisted use of the HANS device when it was introduced. The HANS was developed specifically to help prevent Basilar skull fractures common to car racing. Earnhardt later died after suffering this exact injury
V4E8 TIL of Justo Gallego Martínez, a 90 year old former monk who is building an unauthorized cathedral in spain since 1961. He works mostly alone for ten hours a day, six days a week.
RkKj TIL in 1251 the king kept a polar bear in the Tower of London, which “attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames”
eplmL TIL that the BBC's most exported show abroad is the 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances