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TIL Ian Fleming was told by his doctor that gin was damaging to his health (Fleming loved gin so much he would drink a pint every day). The doctor then suggested something relatively less damaging to Fleming's health: bourbon.

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0wn5v TIL the UK's Secret Intelligence Service is said to train secret agents in field operations at a star-shaped 1700's castle called Fort Monckton. It is known as No.1 Military Training Establishment & is guarded by razor wire, high intensity lighting & an "in-house" security staff.
QJ5Xe TIL Moustapha Akkad produced the Halloween franchise. One of the few Syrians to reach international stardom as a producer and director in Hollywood. Akkad and his daughter, Rima, tragically died in the 2005 Amman bombings.
16aWr TIL about the island of Maui Nui or Greater Maui, which included the present day islands of Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe. All except Kahoʻolawe were a single island even during the last glacial maximum (~20000 years ago).
ylM8 TIL in 1992, a dancer from the Philippines was admitted to a Japanese hospital and died a week later from hepatitis. When her body was flown back and her coffin opened for the funeral, her family found she was stabbed and beaten to death.
LEG0 TIL that Croatia voluntarily joined Nazi Germany in WW2 and perpetuated a now largely-forgotten Holocaust of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia. Their methods of genocide were so brutal that even the Nazis had to tell the Croatians to stop.