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TIL Tasting Blood During Exercise Indicates a Mild Form of Heart Failure

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rNp6y TIL that Fyodor Dostoevsky had a crippling addiction to gambling. He went bankrupt multiple times due to this habit, and one of his novels, "The Gambler", was written exclusively to pay off his debts. Once, his financial situation was so dire his wife was reportedly forced to pawn her underwear.
Xa9D TIL Lieutenant “Mad” Jack Churchill was the only soldier of WWII to kill a man with a longbow, and the first to go into battle with one in hundreds of years. He did this while also armed with a broadsword and bagpipes, which he played while killing enemies.
yM0J TIL Peter Cushing, the actor for Grand Moff Tarkin, found his costume’s boots to be very uncomfortable. Any time his feet were not visible in the shot he would be wearing comfy slippers. Grand Moff Tarkin destroyed Alderaan wearing comfy slippers.
X0VP8 TIL That Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present for three of America’s four presidential assassinations (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley)
wLm4M TIL that Jamaican rapper Shaggy, famous for his hit "It Wasn't Me," served as a US Marine in Operation Desert Storm during the First Persian Gulf War.