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TIL Edward Youde was the only Governor of Hong Kong to die in office. He helped negotiate the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which made it clear that the British would leave Hong Kong in 1997 after 156 years of colonial rule

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Awyg TIL that Major General Henry A. Barnum was shot through the side in the Civil War. Assumed dead, he was taken prisoner and survived. He kept the bullet tract open as a trophy by running a ramrod through the wound every day. He was later shot in two more battles, and survived them both.
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