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TIL Using a chloroform soaked rag as an incapacitating agent is pure fiction. It is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform in this manner.

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71RO TIL a British supercentenarian died last year. Two months before his death, he told newspapers that he drank an elixir given to him by a doctor in Mumbai before WWI and was told, “drink this and you’ll live forever.”
BgM7r TIL that a French Soldier called Albert Severin Roche, had personally captured 1,180 prisoners. He was called the "first soldier of France" by allied supreme commander Marechal Foch
KOoXJ TIL that George Washington declined to run for a third term of office because he believed his death in office would create an image of a lifetime appointment. The precedent of a two-term limit was created by his retirement from office.
ZxJ4 TIL a town in North Carolina, fed up with Time Warner, built their own isp called Greenlight. Time Warner’s response was to lobby the state senate.
wLMQo TIL that Tom Lee, a river worker, saved 32 passengers from a sinking M.E. Norman steamboat on May 8, 1925. Tom Lee Park in Memphis is named after him.