Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 24 August 1770

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Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at The Henry Ford Museum near Detroit. Ford reportedly convinced Charles Edison to seal a test tube of air in the inventor's room shortly after his death as a memento.
(18 October 1931)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 24th of August 1770 256 years, 5 months and 24 days ago
Poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry Thomas Chatterton commits suicide by arsenic poisoning at the age of 18 in Brooke Street, Holborn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. After drinking the poison Chatterton tore into fragments whatever literary remains were at hand.