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TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte sniffed over seven pounds of snuff a month.

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wLo0P TIL that there are a pair of replica Titanics, 4 stories tall, that serve as museums to the disaster. They're in rural Tennessee and Missouri, amongst cornfields, 3000 miles from the disaster.
YpD1x TIL In 1936, King George V was injected with 1g of cocaine and 750mg of morphine - enough to kill him twice - to make sure he died in time for printing presses which rolled at midnight.
M7gKA TIL after US President Wilson had a stroke in 1919, his wife Edith Wilson limited his access to just his doctor and few close associates, and acted as the president's proxy and effectively ran the White House, and by extension the country, by extolling access to the president.
m1X9M TIL about Operation Artichoke. A 1954 CIA plan to make an unwitting individual attempt to assassinate American public official, and then be taken into custody and “disposed of”.
nZp7 TIL Scientists recently discovered that some of the most powerful “space winds” in the universe, blowing at 125 million mph from black holes could be killing galaxies.