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TIL about Arthur Wermuth, a U.S. Army Captain from South Dakota who was placed with the 57th Infantry ((Philippine Scouts). He performed "countless" guerrilla missions against the Japanese, often alone or with his friend Sergeant "Jock" Crispin Jacob, and earned the nickname "Ghost of Bataan."

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E1ajX TIL the idea caffeinated coffee & tea dehydrate you is misunderstood. It's true that caffeine can be a weak diuretic - (stimulates urination) - but the loss is negated by the water in the drink itself. You're ingesting more fluids than urinating when drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee or tea.
epRPD TIL: More than 1,800 antique papyrus scrolls from 79 AD were preserved by being carbonized due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius - some contained hitherto lost works and the efforts to read them are still on-going
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