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TIL that in 1857 John Nicholson burst into an officers’ dinner and said: “I am sorry, gentlemen, to have kept you waiting for your dinner, but I have been hanging your cooks." Nicholson had found out the cooks had poisoned the soup and so he had killed them all.

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