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TIL there are photographs of old veterans who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée.

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BK4y TIL Male Victims of Domestic Violence who call law enforcement for help are statistically more likely to be arrested themselves than their female partner- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH [PDF]
781gb TIL: Due to animals not being sufficient enough, humans were experimented on by the medical team of the Manhattan Project. Civilians nationwide were injected radioactive elements in secrecy. The experiment only became public in the 1990s after all the test subjects died. Their families got money.
dkN9 TIL that Walt Disney had an older brother named Roy who was the CEO and later president/chairman of Walt Disney Productions from 1929-1971. Roy eschewed publicity and preferred to work behind the scenes, leaving his brother to be the face of Disney.
NyDQ TIL Ben Affleck once asked Michael Bay on the set of Armageddon: Wouldn’t it make more sense just to train experienced astronauts how to drill instead of the other way around (?), and Bay responded “shut the f%ck up”.
yQ1vM TIL the 2001 film Bend it like Beckham is the highest grossing film about soccer (football) ($76.6 million) and was a career making film for Kiera Knightly