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TIL that when U.S. General George S. Patton died in late 1945, the French government offered to bury him beside Napoleon in Paris out of gratitude for his role in the liberation of France and western Europe.

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5Yy88 TIL that Argentina is the country that consumes the most soda every year, with 155 liters per person per year.
ZpwLY TIL the director of the French Connection paid an official at the New York Transit Authority a $40,000 bribe to overlook the rules and allow the famous chase sequence to be filmed.
7oZP TIL that in 1835, a house painter who believed he was the King of England tried twice to assassinate U.S. President Andrew Jackson at a funeral. Both guns mis-fired and Jackson, 67, beat the man with his cane. One of the people who restrained the would-be assassin was Davy Crockett.
8NVa TIL Netflix funded $246,664 to approve Prop 47, which “Reduces simple drug possession and theft-related sentences to misdemeanors and directs financial savings to substance abuse programs, K-12 education, and trauma recovery services for crime victims.”
690jl TIL the 2006 Securitas Depot Robbery remains the United Kingdom's biggest heist. Close to £53 million was stolen in hard cash - comprised of used and unused sterling banknotes - property of the Bank of England...