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TIL Every day 22 veterans on average commit suicide in the USA. That’s one suicide every 65 minutes.

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BrjXb TIL in 2017, a black labrador got their own photo in the Stafford High School yearbook. Alpha, the service dog of Andrew Schalk, would alert him if his blood sugar got too low; he even had his own school ID
G6lG TIL Samuel James Seymour, the last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination, was interviewed about in 1956 on the CBS quiz show “I’ve Got a Secret”.
XE4RQ TIL of Arfa Karim, who at the age of nine became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. After an epileptic seizure resulted in cardiac arrest, Bill Gates directed his doctors to adopt "every kind of measure" for her treatment.
R7XDQ TIL gin and tonic was invented to make antimalarials more palatable
KOGK4 TIL In Japan women give chocolate to men rather than the common-place tradition of men gifting women with tokens of love. This is rumored to be a tradition which originated from a translation error of a chocolate company during the initial campaigns marketing Valentines Day