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TIL that 8 percent of Muslim Americans have attempted suicide, compared to 4 percent of Americans of other religions

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jN6JQ TIL The Lunokhod1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.
loj65 TIL: In the 1880s, the Fenian Brotherhood, Irish separatists living in the US, commissioned John Holland to build a submarine to attack British ships. Due to a legal dispute, they refused to pay for the submarine, stole it, couldn't pilot it, and Holland refused to teach them.
R5517 TIL that the Oscar Academy wanted to give Dead Man's Chest an award/nomination for make-up, not digital effects because they were fooled into thinking that Davy Jones was Bill Nighy wearing make-up and rubber tentacles. They had to convince them it was 100% CGI.
69odl TIL of Marinos Mitraxexis, a Greek flying ace who shot down an Italian bomber, running out of ammo in the process. Seeing more bombers, he rammed the tail of another, and after making an emergency landing, arrested the surviving crew of the bomber with his pistol.
rRMNo TIL formations called "the Devil's Corkscrew" were first found around Harrison, Nebraska, in 1891, and were once thought to be extinct forms of sea sponges, but it turns out they are actually fossilized dens of an extinct type of beaver called Palaeocastor.