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TIL Napoléon shipped more than 800,000 pints of wine during his Egyptian Campaign.

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9YD9r TIL back in February a woman played violin during brain surgery so the surgeons could observe the parts of her brain she used to do so and avoid damaging her ability to play
nejPb TIL Jonathan Hensleigh, the writer of "Die Hard With a Vengeance," was interrogated by the FBI over his screenplay. The plot Hensleigh devised to rob the bank was so plausible, the FBI wanted to know where he got his information.
4XxNa TIL that Alice in Wonderland was banned in China in grounds that animals shouldnt speak.
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ep5nL TIL the last time a British monarch died in battle was in 1513, when James IV of Scotland staged a disastrous invasion of England that ended in a rout at Flodden Field. Thomas Howard, the general who defeated him, subsequently added a Scottish lion with an arrow through its head to his coat of arms.