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TIL of a plot to kill a man by giving him unlimited drinking credit and thus making him drink himself to death. He wouldn’t die even after they tried serving him antifreeze, turpentine, rat poison etc. He is known as ‘Durable Mike Malloy’ or 'Iron Mike’.

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