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TIL Napoleon Bonaparte Owned a Watch from a Brand That Still Exists Today

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kJWK4 TIL China Produces More Steel than the Rest of the World Combined
e0e94 TIL that at the start of the AIDS epidemic, CDC epidemiologists has a plan to combat the disease, but were told by the Regan administration "No, we're not going to fund it, and we want you to look pretty and do as little as you can."
YWnW TIL that the word ‘Third World’ has little to do with how poor a country is. Sweden and Finland are also considered to be Third World countries.
9RMX TIL a greater percentage of Dutch people speak English than Canadians. 90% of Dutch people speak English. Only 85% of Canadians do.
x9pb TIL Charlie Chaplin would have canned The Great Dictator had he known about the actual horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at the time. “Had I known, … I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.”