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TIL that giving aspirin to someone with chicken pox can be fatal.

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4XZRJ TIL: Two stones set in to a quiet Edinburgh street mark the site of Scotland's last hanging (in 1815) of convicted highwaymen. Sympathy for the executed men and folklore over the decades spawned a legend that the cement around the stones never fully dries.
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NyMN TIL the woman general, Liang Hongyu, after being wounded and seeing her intestines hanging out, realized she would die. So, she pushed her intestines back in, bound her abdomen, and then said to her followers, “Today is the day I die for my country!”. She killed dozens.
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