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TIL that yesterday was Napoleon Bonaparte’s Birthday

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OGy9Y TIL Jim Corbett, the famous hunter of man eating lions and tigers in the early 1900's had a movie made based on his life. It was so bad he said of the movie that "The best actor was the tiger."
oWQW TIL John Snow is considered the Father of Modern Epidemiology, after successfully tracing back a cholera infection to a water pump in London in 1854.
vY5x TIL The tallest building in the world to have a woman as lead architect is in Chicago (Aqua Tower)
ADyba TIL that Clara Blandick, who played Aunt Em in the Wizard of Oz, killed herself by overdosing on sleeping pills and tying a plastic bag around her head. She also left a suicide note saying she could no longer live with the pain or face going blind
LxQZ TIL: The Tallahassee Police Department ( the tow where Florida State University is located) pressured a student, Rachel Hoffman, into being an informant for a drug sting in 2008. Rachel’s TPD handlers lost track of her during the sting. Rachel’s body was found two days later in Perry, FL.