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TIL Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by a hoard of hundreds of bunnies

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vnR8 TIL Colgate bought a Chinese toothpaste brand called Darkie in 1985. The name was changed to Darlie but is still sold in China as Black Person Toothpaste
x6yPB TIL that in 1973, two brothers, an 18-year-old and a 10-year-old stayed in Tom Sawyer's River at Disneyland past closing time. When they tried to swim to leave, the older brother carried his younger brother, who didn't know how to swim, on his back and drowned. The younger survived.
eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
VBlkB TIL that the United States does not have a federal law banning cannibalism. Idaho is the only state where simply committing the act lands you in prison.
Ak7n TIL That “ducking and covering” during a nuclear explosion can actually save your life