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TIL Napoleon Bonaparte has a living heir
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P1NML
TIL Samuel Chalfant, a dentist who made dentures without patent approval, murdered Josiah Bacon, the royalty collector for Goodyear Vulcanite Company's patent on rubber dentures. After the murder, the company stopped enforcing the patent, and dentists were able to provide dentures without royalties.
YyNA
TIL that while the bite of the Sydney Funnel Web can kill a human being in under two hours, dogs and cats are largely immune, and can survive up to 100 times the lethal dose.
J1blQ
TIL Ringo Starr and John Lennon tried to move to Texas as teenagers
gMXPW
TIL Quebec "unofficially" got rid of Slavery in 1798, 35 years before it was abolished, because the Chief of Justice couldn't find any laws to punish an escaped slave named Charlotte who refused to return to her master- so he set her free. Other slaves found out and started doing the same thing.
Mel87
TIL that the most mass a planet can have is ~10-13x the mass of Jupiter. After this point, it's own sheer gravity begins to cause nuclear fusion and the body is classified as a brown dwarf (also called a failed star).