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TIL suicides are most likely to occur on Monday.

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9YZR6 TIL the US sent 15-year MLB veteran Moe Berg to a 1944 lecture given by Werner Heisenberg (of uncertainty principle fame) with orders to shoot Heisenberg if his lecture indicated that the Germans were close to completing an atomic bomb.
7rp8Z TIL Ed McMahon (Johnny Carson's sidekick) was a carrier certified Marine F4U Corsair instructor pilot during WWII and an artillery spotter during the Korean War. He flew a total of 85 combat missions. After the war, he stayed with the Marines as a reserve officer, retiring in 1966 as a colonel.
P1pdV TIL Toilet paper was invented in China
LmGd TIL particles of your poop can be sent to a company that will sequence and analyze your bacteria data for under $100
aGX0 TIL that a customer closed his million-dollar bank account after his bank refused to validate a 50c parking ticket