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TIL that 14.4 percent of males and 19.1 percent of females who are veterinarians have considered suicide since graduation. This is three times the U.S. national mean.

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x6Je7 TIL that in parts of the UK, a rule from 1902 mandates that homes facing each other at the rear must be built 21 meters apart. This specific distance was determined by two urban designers who measured how far apart they could see each other's nipples through their shirts.
wEmM TIL on the night Ted Bundy was executed, an estimated 2,000 celebrants sang, danced, and set off fireworks in a pasture across the street from the prison, then cheered loudly as the white hearse carrying his body left the facility.
b9p5E TIL the 2011 Japan earthquake was so powerful that it moved Japan 2 meters to the east and shifted the Earth on its axis.
P1e8e TIL that Hergé's Tintin album "Cigars of the Pharaoh" was made into a play in 1941 called Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond.
4o9o TIL in Soviet-controlled states, prisoners would get tattoos of figures such a Lenin and Karl Marx because firing squads and guards were not allowed to deface images of the USSR’s founding fathers.