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

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OYQ1 TIL that the Sami people of Northern Finland have a unit of measurement called the ‘poronkusema’ - the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.
GAwD5 TIL of Colin Fleming Brien, a WWII POW of the Japanese who survived his beheading, was buried alive, and dug his way out to make his way to a Japanese hospital where he recovered
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