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TIL Winston Churchill received a prescription for alcohol when he visited the United States during prohibition, his Doctor writing, “The quantity [prescribed] is naturally indefinite”.

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4kyWb TIL there is a pile of clothes so big it can be seen from space
VMrr0 TIL Elizabethan era upper-class Englishmen were restricted to spending no more than 100 pounds per year on clothing.
69ppJ TIL during the 1995 Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, (ballooning’s oldest aeronautical race) a balloon was shot down by a Belarusian helicopter gunship, killing the two men piloting it
e0mZL TIL about "Gray Gardens" a 1975 documentary about the eccentric lifestyles of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale, known as "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" respectively, a mother and daughter who removed themselves from society, and live in decaying, old mansion.
Vwok TIL that Mother Teresa’s supposed “miracle cure” of a woman’s abdominal tumor was not a miracle at all. The patient’s doctors and husband said she was cured because she took medicine for 9-12 months. “My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle.”