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TIL that the US military considers suicide to be a crime, and service members have been sent to prison for attempted suicide.

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BMjW TIL that astronauts in the ISS “do their laundry” by having new clothes shipped to them in an unmanned spacecraft that then has the old clothes put into it and is burnt up upon reentry.
gMV17 TIl there exists photographs of soldiers who fought alongside Napoleon (taken circa 1858).
R54Aw TIL that a child dies every two weeks (on average) from television or furniture tip-over accident
yQRN8 TIL that carbon dating data for human bones can be thrown off by hundreds of years if the deceased ate a lot of seafood, because the carbon in fish could have been generated hundreds of years ago and then recycled among the fish and plants (and other food) before being caught and eaten by a human.
7rplM TIL: The Queen owns all the sturgeons, whales and dolphins in the waters within 3 miles from the UK