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TIL George Washington prevented a military coup over unpaid back wages by putting on a pair of glasses to read a letter from Congress, explaining he was "almost blind in the service of my country.” Moved to tears, his officers compromised.

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OGbbR TIL that South Africa has a "Witchcraft Suppression Act" that is still in force
EoD7 TIL that the Pholcidae spider (Daddy long leg) preys upon venomous spiders like the black widow.
GALYN TIL that William C. Minor, an M.D. from Yale and schizophrenic, killed a man and then became a brilliant linguistic scholar and a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, while in an asylum for the insane
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