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TIL That in the 60s a dolphin that played Flipper in the TV show became depressed and committed suicide.

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4Xmbo TIL George Eastman founder of the Kodak and helped to bring the use of roll film into the mainstream, suffered from a degenerative disease in his final two years. Eastman died by suicide with a gunshot through the heart. His suicide note read, "To my friends, my work is done – Why wait? GE."
loYaa TIL about Typhoid Mary: the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. In her job as a cook she infected 51 people. She was forcibly isolated for 3 years; being released on the promise she didn’t return to cooking. She did return, was caught and confined for the remainder of her life (23 years).
Wa4A TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television.
E1w97 TIL the Chaco Culture National Historic Site in New Mexico containes ruins built between 800AD-1150AD and remained the largest structures in North America until the 1800's.
m1n6x TIL that Pulp Fiction magazines with weekly serialized stories, were the predecessors to modern Comics and Manga, starting as early as 1896