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TIL More police officers and firefighters die from suicide than in line of duty

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8aLab TIL Hannelore Kohl, wife of the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1982-1998), was gang-raped and thrown out a first-floor window by Soviet soldiers as a 12 year old in 1945. She committed suicide in 2001, after a long battle with mental problems most likely caused by these suppressed traumas.
yQbJe TIL that all the songs in "Singin' in the Rain" besides "Moses Supposes" and "Make Em Laugh" are originally from other movies.
YLEZ TIL that, while working for Sports Illustrated, Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a piece about a race horse jumping over a fence and attempting to escape. He stared at a blank piece of paper all morning then wrote, “The horse jumped over the fucking fence,” and then left.
0w6A TIL a dingle is a deep, narrow cleft between hills. Hence the term: dingle berry.
wLooY TIL Coroners in the U.S. are elected officials, require little to no training in most districts, and may overule a forensic pathologist in naming a cause of death.