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TIL Each year over 800,000 people worldwide die by suicide

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xVrL1 TIL the Gerber baby is a girl.
G9d5 TIL That Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
Men7a TIL that mint leaves can be used to get high and a mint called Salvia divinorum is used by Mazatec Shamans of Mexico because they believe its visual hallucinations are divination or prophecy. They think that this mint is an incarnation of Virgin Mary and chant a praise to Her before getting high.
lglB TIL When Adolf Hitler decided to commit suicide, he fed some cyanide to his dog to make sure it worked. His private nurse later said that the people in the bunker were more distraught by the death of his dog than that of his wife, Eva Braun.
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