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TIL that Napoleon IV wanted to fight against Nazis but he was in exile and banned from France. He then joined the Foreign Legion with a false name and when France capitulated, he joined the French Resistance.

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wLlW7 TIL about Ali Maow Maalin. In 1977 he was diagnosed and later found to be the last known person to be naturally infected with smallpox. He made a full recovery and in the 2000's worked with the WHO on their successful polio eradication campaign in Somalia. He died of malaria in 2013.
XEOQE TIL Gene Wilder did not tell the public about his Alzheimer's diagnosis, because, "He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world."
e0am6 TIL Tabasco Sauce is fermented for three years in used Jack Daniel's Whiskey barrels before bottling.
vMV8 TIL that during the Great Depression, people used small “coins” worth fractions of a cent to avoid paying too much extra sales tax on small purchases due to rounding.
9YWOp Til Dr. Archibald spent several years acting as the mate of a female whooping crane sleeping, dancing, and building nests with her as part of an effort to save the species from extinction. He received award for his work.