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TIL 'Protect and Serve' is a Marketing Slogan -- It's Not Real

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kJ1Wm TIL about Johnny Clem, who joined the Union Army as a drummer boy at age 10. Clem became a legend when he shot and killed a Confederate Colonel at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.
AR5g TIL In 1915 A millionaire named Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. She didn’t like it, so in 1918 he gave it to the nation
R7vM8 TIL that imbuing N95 face masks with copper oxide particles significantly reduces the risk of transmission of the novel-type of flu viruses
N7JZE TIL the reason why the Small Faces had "Small" in their name was that they all were below 5'5" tall.
445J TIL Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a pistol. The bullet did not cause enough damage to kill him so he walked back to the inn where doctors treated him. VanGogh finally died of an infection 29 hours after shooting himself.