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TIL that after Napoleon defeat 1815 his only son Napoleon II was brought to Vienna where he was held as virtual prisoner until he died young in 1832. His remains were returned to Paris by Adolf Hitler 1940

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yDBw TIL Christians in South Korea have been aggressively attempting to convert the nation to Christianity, even going so far as to burn Buddhist temples and decapitate statues of the Buddha
KYAJB TIL: At the height of her popularity, because she was very physically coordinated and never seen missing baby teeth, child actress Shirley Temple combated rumors that she was in fact a 30 year old with dwarfism. The rumor was so prevalent in Europe that the Vatican sent a priest to investigate.
JYXpk TIL that the average national IQ correlates well with GDP per capita and other measures of development. This paper claims that higher cognitive skills of a nation in general, and more importantly, its intellectual class, contributes to making it a richer country.
E57X TIL Muhammad Ali stopped a man from trying to kill himself (by jumping off a building) and he was originally named in honor of a white abolitionist.
vkA8 TIL that, in the late 1940’s, the British designed a double deck airliner the size of a 767. It carried only 100 passengers, each allotted room equivalent to the interior of a small car.