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TIL The manliest of all men was a French commander named Marshal Ney, who directed his own execution

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69oGm TIL that James Cameron offered Matt Damon 10% of "Avatar," which would've earned the actor over $250 million.
YpomG TIL, in 2015, brothers John and Geof Bitmead modified a Daewoo Matiz to resemble the red and yellow 'Little Tikes' car. The car cost £30,000 to build, and was put on auction for £21,500; it failed to sell.
4XbJo TIL Serial killer Edmund Kemper buried one of his victim's head in his mother's garden facing upward toward her bedroom. After his arrest, he stated that he did this because his mother "always wanted people to look up to her."
4XYnb TIL the Comanche code word for Adolf Hitler (used by the Code Talkers during WWII) was “crazy white man.”
nWJbr TIL Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. Among other things, he developed several programming languages and wrote various textbooks. Wirth's Law, according to which software slows down faster than hardware speeds up, is named after him.