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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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8nZZ TIL that Snoop Dogg once tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for a video shoot, and the main reason they said no is because he didn’t give them enough notice.
6O08 TIL That there is a network of fungi (mycorrhizal fungi) that connects plants to each other at the roots. The fungi give the plants nutrients and the plants give the fungi sugar. The vast connection of plants and fungi is called the “Wood Wide Web”
DQQyJ TIL you should not give person with chickenpox ibuprofen and rather use paracetamol, although risk of rare worst case scenario with ibuprofen is 1 in 50000 cases
9w8lm TIL: The bony-eared assfish is the vertebrate with the lowest known brain to body mass index.
QJPPX TIL Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu masqueraded as a woman and used a 20 year long sexual affair with a French diplomat to steal intelligence. He even purchased a child and convinced the diplomat it was his.