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TIL : High Lithium levels in drinking water will lead to lower than expected suicide rates

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jN0Xn TIL that 3 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Navy had submarines off the coast of San Francisco ready for a Christmas Day attack on the Golden Gate Bridge. One single torpedo was fired and was found buried on Marshall Beach next to the bridge in 1946
WWXA TIL When Britain changed the packaging for Tylenol to blister packs instead of bottles, suicide deaths from Tylenol overdoses declined by 43 percent. Anyone who wanted 50 pills would have to push out the pills one by one but pills in bottles can be easily dumped out and swallowed.
XEX0R TIL that Magda and Joseph Goebbels in the last days of WWII and while confined to the Führerbunker, arranged to have all 6 of their children killed with cyanide as they slept. They believed the children would support their decision to commit suicide if they were old enough to speak for themselves.
kk94 TIL a pizza delivery man had a bomb strapped round his neck and was forced to rob a bank. He was arrested by police, and was killed after the bomb detonated.
WkZyN TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar didn't want to appear in the movie Airplane and only agreed to do so because it would pay him enough to afford a $35,000 rug.