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TIL Napoleon Bonaparte won more victories than Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar… Combined

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6E5dX TIL while humans produce vitamin D by exposing their skin to sunlight, cats and dogs must ingest their own fur as a source of their vitamin D. This is the reason why they love to lay in the sun and groom themselves (probably because it feels good too)
Z80Y TIL in the early 1900s, a 5 foot tall man single handedly scuplted and moved many stone blocks that weighed several tons. He never revealed his method and said he knew how the Pyramids were built. His name was Edward Leedskalnin.
OraR TIL During the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a single Russian tank delayed the advance of an entire division for one day
Pnrw TIL when you look at a clock, and the second hand seems to freeze for a moment, your brain is actually generating a false memory, and your perception of time stretches slightly backward. This effect is called chronostasis.
wLVvM TIL that the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe (always attacking outsiders too close to the Sentinel Island), started to use arrows with metal tips rather than stone tips. It is believed that they have scavenged a ship that ran aground the island on 1981 and extracted its metal.