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TIL 6,500 former military personnel committed suicide in 2012 alone

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6EDJ8 TIL Mice on Earth may like running in wheels, but mice in space apparently take advantage of the microgravity to run in circles by bouncing off the walls.
GAZWE TIL a book club in California spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, beginning in 1995 and finishing in October 2023. At first the club read two pages per month, however it eventually slowed to just one page per month. In November, the group started the book again.
l7jYA TIL that the smallest functional motorcycle in the world is called ‘Smalltoe.’ Tom Wiberg, from Sweden, built Smalltoe, which stood at 2.55 inches tall and weighed a mere 2.4 pounds. The Guinness World Records certified Wiberg as a record holder in 2003 for making the smallest functional motorcycle
e4a6 TIL the world’s biggest traffic jam was an 18-million-car backup, on Easter weekend, April 1990, the first holiday in nearly 40 years that Germans were free to visit family on the other side of the border separating East Germany from West Germany
lXkA TIL Andrew Wakefield, the infamous ex-physician who fabricated evidence linking vaccines to autism, now lives in Texas and is pitching a reality TV show called “The Autism Team”