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TIL that yesterday was Napoleon Bonaparte’s Birthday

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1WnD TIL that employers cannot take away their employees tips
965M TIL that propane has no natural odor. The “propane smell” is added to propane for safety purposes.
QNxLa TIL after David Letterman left NBC for CBS, his show was offered to both Dana Carvey and Garry Shandling, who both turned it down. Conan O'Brien eventually got the gig, while Shandling also turned down the same 12:30 slot at CBS in favor of his own HBO sitcom.
awkx9 TIL child prodigy who went to Oxford at age 13, went on later to work as a call girl.
0wgKL TIL the Smithsonian raised $700k on Kickstarter in an effort to conserve the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore to walk on the moon, because NASA built it to with a life expectancy of 6 months