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WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.
0wmYN TIL "Typhoid Mary" vigorously protested her quarantine. When she was first captured in 1907, she fled over back fences and barricaded herself with barrels. Her second capture came after she hid in a friend’s home on Corona Avenue and was finally captured by means of a ladder to the second story.
1aa0W TIL that the US Navy had a warship named USS Ponce (bit of a different meaning in British English)
b9JvN TIL If you’ve had straight hair for all of your life, your hair can grow back in curls after you’ve completed Chemotherapy.
OoX04 TIL that there is a defunct Philippine Basketball team that went by the name the FedEx Express and the Burger King Whoppers.