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TIL: 50 years ago, American TV reporter, Christine Chubbuck, committed suicide on live TV by shooting herself in the head.

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9YVx6 TIL that the only document with the taste of Cyanide written is the Suicide Note of an Indian Goldsmith who killed himself in 2006 by mixing a pinch of it in his liquor. He wrote “Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid."
e9Z5 TIL Cows sometimes hide their calves from the farmer, they remember that previous ones were taken away.
GAKb1 TIL that Finland has a "National Sleepy Head Day" where the last person in a household to wake up is thrown into a lake or the sea by the rest of the family or friends
epa05 TIL that the Chevy Bolt has a 65kwh battery. This is equivalent to 2 gallons of gasoline at 35kwh per gallon. This shows the great energy density of gasoline and the incredible efficiency of electric motors. An electric car can go 300 miles while an ICE car can only go roughly 60 miles.
e7bb TIL, The nerd who kissed Bar Rafaeli on the Go Daddy commercial is known as Jesse Heiman, the worlds greatest extra, and he was in Old School, Transformers and Van Wilder.