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TIL that Russians considered the winter when Napoleon invaded Russia to be "a relatively mild winter"

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KOKE TIL conspiracy theorists tried to sue Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 and Apollo 13) because he said he went to the moon
905B TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower graduated West Point in the middle of the class of 1915, which became known as “the class the stars fell on” because 59 members eventually became general officers.
grLBX TIL Bruce Willis was suffering from FTD for his last 30 movies, which were all terrible. He didn't even know he was on the set. Where was his wife?
V4E8 TIL of Justo Gallego Martínez, a 90 year old former monk who is building an unauthorized cathedral in spain since 1961. He works mostly alone for ten hours a day, six days a week.
DQvAp TIL that the vehicles in Disneyland's Indiana Jones ride can't reverse. The final boulder escape scene is achieved by tilting the vehicle's motion base backwards and accelerating the walls past the riders.