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TIL about "Nanokids" organic compounds shaped like humans
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TIL Napoleon had a healthy obsession with Australia his whole life. Had he won at Waterloo he intended to name part of Australia “Terre Napoléon” (Napoleon Land) and brought back 200+ species of Australian flora and fauna to France, making Josephiné the first person in history to breed black swans.
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TIL that the Voyager 1 is still alive and well. In December of last year, it used its rockets to maneuver for the first time in 37 years
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TIL Tajmahal was so bright even at midnight, INDIA covered it up with forest of twigs and leaves during 1971 INDO-PAK war, so that it can't be used as a reference point by PAK aircrafts.
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TIL a man made a homemade tank out of a bulldozer that was immune to armor piercing ammo, and took revenge on a town, causing over $7 million in damage before he took his own life
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TIL Mel Carnahan was the first person to be elected to the Senate of the United States posthumously because the Missouri election law did not allow for his name to be removed from the ballot.