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TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte was once moved to tears over the grief of a dog who he found sitting with its owner’s body

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ylw TIL that followers of Native American Church can legally use, transport and possess peyote.
WkLEY TIL 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness), up from 10-20% 60 years ago
VBgpZ TIL of Viktor Belenko, the Soviet pilot who defected with the MiG-25 (most advanced Soviet interceptor of its time), who initially assumed that his CIA handlers were keeping him in an elaborate tourist trap made to impress foreigners because he couldn't comprehend the sheer abundance he was seeing.
p8g1e TIL in 1998, a minister who was using a .357-caliber Magnum to compare sin to Russian roulette died five days after shooting himself in the head with a blank round and shattering his skull in front of several hundred parishioners, including his family.
QNK8e TIL Stu Unger, widely regarded one of the best gin and Texas hold em players of all time, won an estimated $30 million during his poker career. He died with no assets to his name, having lost much of the money betting on horses and sports, and supporting his drug habit.