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TIL there are now MLA guidelines for citing a tweet

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XQkr TIL French toast is older than France.
6EmOW TIL that after Napoleon defeat 1815 his only son Napoleon II was brought to Vienna where he was held as virtual prisoner until he died young in 1832. His remains were returned to Paris by Adolf Hitler 1940
oBdV7 TIL about Hans Huber, a paper mill owner who refused to destroy the member records of the Nazi Party, hiding them instead to hand them over to the US after the war