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TIL The South African health ministry once stapled a leaflet to condoms they distributed

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mJDv TIL during the Napoleonic Wars the English Navy inflicted over 3 times as many casualties on the French Navy than the French Navy inflicted on the English Navy, in part because French gun crews fired high to disable enemy masts & rigging while English gun crews fired low into enemy gun crews & hulls
d7lB TIL in the Guns & Roses track ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’, they weren’t sure how to end the track. While Axl was listening to the loop he was saying to himself 'Where do we go now?’. The Producer suggested they just use that to fill the breakdown.
KV86 TIL that Napoleon I was actually 5'7", an average male height at the time, and his “shortness” was propaganda used by the British that is still believed today.
wL888 TIL that not all infinites are equal and some infinities are bigger than others. For example, there are more numbers between 1 and 3 (ex. 2.4805) than there are between 1 and 2. Both are infinite but one is more vast than the other.
aWKL TIL that USMC Scout Sniper training includes having to move within 200 yards of an observation post and shoot at it twice without being spotted, the second shot with an indicator within 10 yards of the sniper. To pass the course you have to remain unseen at least twice.