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TIL that Kevin Hines attempted suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge and after hitting the water, he was kept afloat by a Sea Lion until the Coast Guard arrived.

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ZoNQ TIL that in the three months preceding the Rwandan Genocide nearly half a million machetes were imported into Rwanda and the primary financier of this mass importation is still at large.
wKB1 TIL, Al Gore graduated 25th in his class of 51, applied to only one college, Harvard, and was accepted.
vP47D TIL: The oldest humanoid archeological find in Japan dates back over 22,000 years. It contained the fossils of 2 males and 3-7 females. It is believed that they were speared, cannibalized, and then thrown into the fissure. The males were 155cm tall while the females were 140cm.
nLgr TIL the lead singer of Chicago died after he picked up a 9mm pistol, said, “Don’t worry about it… Look, the clip’s not even in it,” then held it to his head and pulled the trigger
ogdL TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”