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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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XEJbQ TIL That actor Kirk Douglas once tried to commit suicide after his stroke, by shooting himself through the mouth. However, the gun hit a tooth, and it hurt so much that he stopped completely. He was then so amused that toothache had stopped him from killing himself, that he decided to live.
bQj TIL that four fans on low speed will produce more cooling than one set on high and still use a lot less energy.
4X5NJ TIL that Julia Child, autor of The French Chef, helped the US military in WW2 to develop a shark repellant that is still used today.
Z81EY TIL that Steve Jobs was in line to be awarded as Time Magazine's person of the year for 1982 but they decided to give it to a machine after he gave interviews denying paternity of his own daughter and disparaging the mother. The daughter went on to write a book that details how badly he treated her.
GK97 TIL that after the bombing of Hiroshima, there were “ant-walking alligators” that the survivors saw everywhere, men and women who “were now eyeless and faceless — with their heads transformed into blackened alligator hides displaying red holes, indicating mouths.”