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TIL that Franklin Roosevelt most likely had Guillane-Barre syndrome rather than polio

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R954 TIL That 2 damaged Israeli Centurion tanks during the Yom Kippur War, fought & completely destroyed 60 Syrian T-55’s & T-62’s, annihilating the Tank division in the Golan Heights and ultimately halting their advance.
v15d8 TIL Listerine was initially used as an anti-septic and is named after Joseph Lister, the doctor who famously used the first anti-septics in the medical field. It has also been sold as floor cleaner and as a cure for Gonorrhea
JYkym TIL because France prohibits alcohol sponsorship of sport, the Guinness Six Nations rugby championship is branded there as 'Six Nations Greatness'
BrMYd TIL that in 2003, after Kenneth Maxwell called 911 to report a fire he saw while driving home, his voice cut off, and when emergency personnel arrived on the scene he was found shot to death in his car. The fire was set to disguise a double homicide, and the killer saw Kenneth make the call.
eJe6 TIL that Nixon didn’t want pigeon poop along the path to his inauguration, so he had $13,000 of a chemical bird repellent sprayed on trees around the area. It turned out the spray was toxic, and instead of pigeon poop, Nixon had dead pigeons lining the path to his inauguration.