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TIL, Water intoxication can happen if you drink too much water too fast and can be deadly

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nDXo TIL Sir James Milne Wilson achieved the extremely rare feat of being both born on 29 February and dying on 29 February.
W7Jpd TIL Domingo Ghirardelli was so upset that a Catholic priest did not do last rites for his daughter that he smuggled his family's bodies out of the local Catholic cemetery and moved them to a mausoleum decorated with a prominent Masonic emblem above the door.
GY75J TIL of Bass Reeves, the first black U.S marshal west of the Mississippi River. At the end of his career in 1907 at the age of 70, he had arrested over 3000 felons and shot and killed 14 outlaws.
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RlV1 TIL in Assassin’s Creed every named character you kill is not only a real historical figure, but their death in the game is in the same year and location as their death IRL.