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TIL Winston Churchill believed that Prohibition in the United States was “an affront to the whole history of mankind”

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g54W TIL that retired WWE wrestler CM Punk is now a writer for Marvel comics.
J1RGl TIL Wang Geon, the founder of Goryeo (a medieval Korean kingdom), had 30 wives and 34 children. He married daughters from powerful noble families to have their support. In contrast, his son Gwangjong, wanting to retain power only in the royal family, married his half-sister, and his niece
0wA7R TIL that in 17th-century Poland, wet bread mixed with spider webs was used to cure wounds. It may sound stupid, but it work, as the bread contained fungal spores, including penicillin and naturally produced antibiotic substances.
rR5dw TIL of Thomas Francis Meagher, born 1823. He was an Irish nationalist, got exiled to Tasmania, escaped to New York, visited Costa Rica, fought in the Civil War, became governor of Montana, and died when he fell off a boat at age 43.
aN1o TIL Stephen King and his wife donated $1.2 million to build a baseball stadium in Bangor Maine under the condition that he could see the scoreboard from his home office window