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TIL that Napoleon was taller than both Lenin and Stalin

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XEMmk TIL that there is a severe shortage of ‘spitter apples’ which are preferred for making ciders because during prohibition the FBI went around chopping down huge swaths of orchards, effectively erasing much of the nation’s stock of spitter apple trees that initially take 20-30 years to grow.
Nkg6 TIL of a thousand year old rosebush in Hildesheim Germany. It even survived world war two, despite being bombed by the allies.
kOoDd TIL while working at a railway, Richard Sears' station received a shipment of gold watches but the jeweler refused the shipment. Sears got the watches at a reduced rate (a common scam) and sold them to his coworkers who needed to keep accurate time. The success lead to his first mail-order catalog.
xkko TIL The world is running low on Helium, which unless a new source is found, will be gone in 25-30 years.
R7pBj TIL Jackie Kennedy was a polyglot, mastered French and speaking also some German and Italia as well as Spanish fluently. She taped radio ads in French, Italian and Spanish, urging the listeners to vote for her husband