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TIL of the Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger", which means that people will accept absurd information, as long as enough people are saying it.

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DQdZj TIL about Albert Severin Roche, a distinguished French soldier who was found sleeping during duty and sentenced to death for it. A messenger arrived right before his execution and told the true story: Albert had crawled 10 hours under fire to rescue his captain and then collapsed from exhaustion.
xVaa1 TIL Juan García, deliberately became a double agent against the Nazi's during WWII. He was so good he was awarded medals by both sides in the war. He convinced the Nazi's the D-Day landing was a diversion for an attack in Pas de Calais, so they kept large forces there before and after the invasion.
6bom TIL of Roy Benavidez, a soldier from Vietnam who saved a trapped patrol although getting shot multiple times. Later he was thought dead, and when the doctor was zipping the body bag, Roy managed to spit on his face. Roy had 37 separate bullet, bayonet and shrapnel wounds.
J1K41 TIL that the drummer for The Police, Stewart Copeland, composed the original score for the 1987 movie "Wall Street"
1aaXP Is it true that drinking tea made from twice boiled water is bad for you?