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TIL : When Voltaire (on his deathbed) was asked by priests to renounce the devil, he sarcastically replied, “This is no time to be making new enemies.”

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M7OWB TIL Filipino movie star Corazon Noble was bayoneted 9 times by WWII Japanese soldier while trying to protect her 10 mo baby, who died after being sliced open 3 times, then helped testify in the postwar crime trials, and is still alive today.
YrkW TIL that New York City is one of four major cities in the United States whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The city is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed.
ZpZov TIL that the hands of former Argentine president Juan Perón were stolen from his tomb in 1987 and are still missing
1an18 TIL that green olives and black olives are the same fruit, the green ones being picked before ripening and black ones let to ripen on the tree.
ML9B TIL that if the man rationing the rum on a ship was suspected of cheating would be challenged to mix the rum with gunpowder. rum that was not watered down and was “over proof”, would still allow the power to ignite, coining the term.