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TIL Dan Rather was injected with heroin by a police officer, in a police station

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6EJKW TIL that the lookout who first spotted the iceberg that sank the Titanic survived the sinking and went on to serve in the merchant navy in WWI and WWII. Shortly after Christmas in 1964, at the age of 77, his wife died, he was evicted from his house and he hanged himself.
N7bvE TIL that the Pyramid of Giza is the only remaining Wonder of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, that it is over 4500 years old, and that the second-to-last remaining Wonder was destroyed over 500 years ago.
p8lap TIL that incarcerated males put themselves at risk for injury and infection when attempting penile enhancement with improvised equipment
woXkW TIL that Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, went on a joyride from Washington D.C. and back with Amelia Earhart.
AD5rg TIL the setting of the Chronicles of Narnia was based on a real Italian town now called Narni; C.S. Lewis got the idea for the place name after looking at an early 20th century atlas