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TIL last year more members of The Army committed suicide than died in combat.

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neNWd TIL Australian opium farmers found mysterious crop circles in their fields. The culprits were wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles
JYaY8 TIL Suicide Rate is 3 times higher than Homicide Rate in the US
RPjw TIL of Agloe, a town that was made up by map-makers for copyright purposes. Then a store was built there and the owners called it the Agloe General Store, based on the name on their map. Because a store was built there, the fake town was regarded as real decades after the store went out of business.
d1jB TIL that a piece of string going around all of Manhattan allows Jewish people to keep the Sabbath.
GYdJ1 TIL We live in a time period where we have the most information about nutrition and exercise in human history at our fingertips but over 66% of the U.S. population is overweight.