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TIL that ex Confederate General Joseph E Johnston died after serving as a pallbearer at the funeral of his former opponent General Sherman in 1891. Despite rain and cold, Johnston refused to wear a hat, out of respect for Sherman.

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78ok7 TIL of Pájaro Verde, a toxic moonshine beverage concocted in Chilean prisons with the ingredients consisting of sugar, rice, rotted fruits and also includes things such as turpentine, paint thinners and paint. There have been cases of prisoners mixing their feces in it to aid in fermentation.
GBGJ TIL Elvis Presley asked Richard Nixon if he could get a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Presley believed the badge would allow him to legally enter any country with whatever weapons and drugs he wanted. Nixon obliged.
ZpaNo TIL that during the Battle of the Chateauguay, an American officer ordered the Canadian forces to surrender. However, because the American officer did not have a truce flag properly displayed, the Canadians simply shot and killed him.
6Mx7 TIL there in the UK there is an official ‘Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office’ (A cat.) The cat’s term of office often outlasts a Prime Minister’s career. The longest serving cat served 4 Prime Ministers
yQNRp TIL That a mountaineer found a wallet in the Andes mountain range that belonged to passenger of the plane crash in 1972. Realising the owner had survived, the mountaineer returned in wallet to him in 2005, more than 30 years later.