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TIL One way around alcohol prohibition in the USA was to have your doctor prescribe it for you; Winston Churchill had a script

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oBD77 TIL that in fact you can film the speed of light!
xee7 TIL That a pug named Pompey woke up the prince of the Netherlands thwarting an assassination attempt. To this day the pug has been the official dog of the house of orange.
ne57G TIL J.R.R Tolkien was trained as a codebreaker during WWII, and would have worked with Alan Turing to crack Germany’s Enigma Machine, if he hadn’t turned down the offer first.
Z8BQ TIL that the guy who took the famous photo of the Wright Brothers’ first flight had never seen a camera before that day.
dDygd TIL that the infamous image of a man who lost his jaw, was falsely associated with Eben Byers (who had his jaw surgically removed after taking daily doses of radium for 3 years), in reality, this image is from a book about plastic surgery from 1943