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

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rRJE0 TIL more than 20% (one in five) of adults in South Africa have HIV, which is an estimated 7.7 million people.
LjJ0 TIL that it wasn’t until the 1930s that production techniques improved to the point where toilet paper could be advertised as “splinter free”.
bkg9 TIL experts can’t agree on what the best method of long distance running is, i.e. heel strike first or toe strike first. Each causes different areas of the leg and foot to be stressed.
jm1n TIL the Paris Agreement “provides no consequences if countries do not meet their commitments” and “there will be only a ‘name and shame’ system”
k87E TIL in WWII,Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung