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TIL despite the "Florence Nightingale Effect" being named for the English nurse, there are no records of her ever falling in love with a patient. The "syndrome" borrows her name because of her famous compassion and tenderness for her patients

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ADnQn TIL in 1981 a CIA agent escaped Iran using a fake German passport. He was detained because it used the middle initial "H", and German passports didn't use initials. The quick-thinking agent was released after claiming that it stood for "Hitler" and he had special permission to use an initial.
WkVjX TIL that elephants are very good swimmers: once an elephant was rescued from the ocean 10 miles off Sri Lanka coast: it got caught in a current off the coast near Kokkilai but it was still swimming
6Er8Y TIL about Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy that solved his own murder case. He was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel. Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service
4kRG6 TIL that The Hershey company (chocolates) and The Hershey Creamery Company (ice-crea) are not related, though both were founded in Lancaster County, PA in 1894 by men whose surnames were Hershey and who were not related to each other. The two companies have had bitter trademark disputes for decades.
vPZ7R TIL Cap'n Crunch did not achieve the rank of Captain until 2023.