Kicked the Safe Jack Daniel forgot the combination to his own safe. It was 1906 in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Frustrated, he kicked it hard. His toe broke. The wound got infected. Gangrene spread up his leg. He lingered for five years. The whiskey magnate died on October 9, 1911. His advice to his nephew: never go to work early.
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