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TIL that researchers long thought US President William Harrison died from an illness he caught giving a lengthy inaugural speech in the rain. But recent research suggests he caught typhoid fever due to the White House’s water supply being downstream of public sewage.

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xZGo TIL motivational speaker born without arms or legs Nick Vujicic keeps a pair of shoes in his closet because of his belief in miracles.
x01D TIL there’s a Scottish in-joke about the ‘wild haggis’. When polled, one third of US visitors to Scotland said they believed it was a real creature.
MevwV TIL infamous cult leader Jim Jones poisoned his followers with Flavor Aid (not Kool-Aid); earlier, he'd been awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award for his progressive integrationist views.
4kRa TIL Charles Manson was a “Theta Clear” level Scientologist
6EPA7 TIL in 2005 a 73-year-old Kenyan man killed a leopard with his bare hands by ripping its tongue out