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TIL in 1795, the French Revolutionary Army captured the 14 warships of the Dutch fleet anchored at the Zuiderzee bay next to Den Helder with a regiment of hussar light cavalry. "A capture of ships by horsemen is an extremely rare feat in military history."

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LQgGV TIL about Giulia Tofana, who helped over 600 women murder their husbands over a 50yr period during the 17th century Italian Renaissance. Her poisonous creation, called Aqua Tofana, was thought to have been laced with arsenic, lead, and belladonna and was sold mixed into cosmetics.
oby7 TIL Men in Black was based on a comic book, and instead of wiping witnesses’ minds, they simply killed them.
69VJY TIL: Photojournalist Richard Drew, who captured “The Falling Man” on 9/11, was also only one of four press photographers present at the assassination of JFK.
5YdOr TIL the Night Witches was a WWII German nickname for the all female aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. They would idle the engines near their target and glide to the bomb release point with only wind noise to reveal them. The Germans likened the sound to broomsticks, giving their nickname.
VM5xp TIL several California law enforcement agencies have destroyed records when forced to make them public by a new law