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TIL - Grocery stores spray water on produce to make it look fresher and weigh more, even though the water actually makes it rot faster

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VBw84 TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the city of Verdun’s defence system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 100,000 casualties to retake it.
4PGg TIL that a British prisoner of war named Edwin Rose missed the liberation of his camp because he fell asleep on the toilet and slept through the battle. He woke to find everyone else gone, so he shaved, put on his best clothes and walked out to freedom.
a8J6y TIL that in 1807 during a celebratory hunt, Napoleon Bonaparte was swarmed by an army of domesticated bunnies.
QNM6k TIL that Charlie Chaplin's speech in The Great Dictator was initially criticized as too political, and he was later investigated by J Edgar Hoover for his political leanings.
7L7O TIL Thomas Jefferson believed that The Constitution should expire every 19 years.