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TIL: Matt LeBlanc was in the offical music video for Bob Seger's Night Moves.

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gMxO9 TIL that Napoleon III of France, whose father fought the British (as part of the Seventh Coalition) in the Hundred Days War, is buried with his son, in Farnborough, England.
j7vN TIL that in October of 2014, Amanda Bynes tweeted that her father sexually abused her as a child. She later claimed that this was not the case, and a microchip implanted in her brain forced her to say it.
OReg TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their vision restored though surgery, and no, they couldn’t.
nWLko TIL that Anteaters T-Pose to establish dominance or ward off predators.
0jYN TIL that during the a battle in 1797, British Admiral Horatio Nelson was badly wounded in the right arm. When he came to the surgeon he said, “the sooner it is off the better,” within a half hour of the amputation he returned to command of his forces.