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TIL - Drinking Cold Drinks Can Trigger Heart Attacks In People With Existing Heart Conditions

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VGr0 TIL that Salvador Dali made a painting for the prisoners at Rikers Island in NYC that hung in the prisoner dining room for 15 years, when it was moved to the prison lobby for ‘safekeeping’. In 2003, three prison guards and a warden stole the painting.
BgvYL TIL that the UK has longer average commute times than the USA
JLOV TIL Bill Gates is a Knight Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
NXeA8 TIL Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor, was a surgeon in the Civil War and an abolitionist who fought for women's dress reform and women's suffrage
E0Ao TIL The MI6 double agent Kim Philby informed his wife of his defection via a telegram from Russia which read: “Farewell forever. Love to the children.”