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TIL Medical Errors Are No. 3 Cause Of U.S Deaths

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W76WN TIL In 1656 the City of London soldiers were ordered to patrol the streets and seize any food they discovered being prepared for Christmas celebrations. They saw Christmas as a wasteful festival that threatened Christian beliefs.
0wR61 TIL of a Polish pilot who, after being shot down during the Battle of Britain, landed in a country club and proceeded to play and win a game a tennis before an RAF truck came to pick him up.
4XdWa TIL an unmanned Russian spacecraft crashed on the moon on July 21, 1969 - while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were still walking on the surface.
YKp7 TIL The hit song “House of the Rising Sun”, covered by The Animals, Bob Dylan, and others, was written in London in the 1700’s, and historians have no idea as to its origin, or who wrote it.
lojmA TIL that Abe Lincoln and Chuck Darwin were born on the exact same date. I wonder if there are any other dates in which multiple historic figures were born.