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TIL Al Capone’s brother was a distinguished prohibition agent and acted as bodyguard to a US president.

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M7kZW TIL Austria added chains to their national coat of arms' bird after 1945 to symbolize the end of German occupation
ZpPjp TIL Most of the stories about the Dvorak keyboard being superior to the standard QWERTY come from a Navy study conducted by August Dvorak, who owned the patent on the Dvorak keyoard.
1oMr TIL in Russia many doctors “treat” alcoholism by surgically implanting a small capsule into their patients. The capsules react so severely with alcohol that once the patient touches a single drop, they instantly acquire an excruciating illness of similar intensity to acute heroin withdrawal
oemR TIL that the English word “Orange” was the name for the fruit for at least a few hundred years before it was the name of a color.
4XkDX TIL that after a sufficiently long haul of insert/delete operations on a Binary Search Tree, the height of the tree degrades to O(sqrt(n)) and does not remain O(logn) mainly because of the fact that Hibbard Deletions lead to an asymmetric tree structure.