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TIL Suicide accounted for 20% of U.S. Military deaths last year. (Page 24)

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OG554 TIL about Mercy dog’s. In WWI and later wars, these dogs were trained to give aid or comfort dying soldiers on battlefields after confrontations.
rRBWe TIL that english premier league clubs spent a total 30B pounds on wages in just 26 years, footballers have been making insane amount of money in wages.
pYPWp TIL that yawns are actually 'contagious' as the chances of you yawning increases by 6 times after seeing someone else yawn.
kyQ1 TIL in the first half of 2012 the National Guard spent $26,000,000 sponsoring NASCAR. This lead to 24,800 “prospects”, 20 “qualified candidates”, and no new guardsmen.
wjxJ TIL Alexander Graham Bell took credit for inventing the phone, but Antonio Meucci invented it 5 years earlier… A problem with is patent gave Bell the chance to claim the invention