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TIL Napoleon Bonaparte wrote an unpublished romance novel

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wop9J TIL about Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), a disorder characterized by extreme, uncontrollable anxiety in the face of anything perceived as a "demand." Those with PDA may try to avoid not only the demands of others, but also the demands of their own body, such as for hunger or sleep.
6EVr7 TIL that cotton shopping bags need to be used 7100 to 20,000 times for their environmental impact to be the same as a plastic bag
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nZEW TIL that the first non-white player in the NBA was Wataru Misaka an Asian American from Utah.
vPjL8 TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97 episodes of Dr. Who; and most of its coverage of the moon landing.