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TIL that in 19th Century London, John Chadwick obsessively believed that cholera was caused by 'bad air' and his actions to 'cure' it lead directly to the additional deaths of fourteen thousand Londoners

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loAy7 TIL during the 1930s, George Ross Gyssling was Hitler’s man in Hollywood, placed there to ensure studios complied with the Führer and the suggested cuts or risk anti-Nazi themed films being barred in Germany. But unbeknown to his bosses, he was a double agent passing valuable intelligence to US
ggmL TIL everyone thought Abraham Lincoln was ugly, including himself. Once when he was accused of being “two-faced,” he replied, “If I had two faces, would I be wearing this one?”
xbmo TIL that the World’s Largest Family consists of 1 husband, 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.
Eg1xW TIL that The World's Smallest Inhabited Island Is About the Size of a Tennis Court
MRJ0 TIL there is a term for “cousin killing,” just not a single one because Latin has distinct words for paternal and maternal cousins. They would be “patruelicide” and “sobrinicide” respectively.