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TIL Napoleon Bonaparte Re-instated Slavery

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pYPdZ TIL Michael Schumacher donated $10 million to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It was the highest individual donation made in the disaster that killed more than 220,000 people. Schumacher's bodyguard Burkhard Cramer, and Cramer's two sons, were killed in the tsunami.
kyMd TIL John Harrison - the only person to be both the child (William Henry Harrison) and the parent (Benjamin Harrison) of U.S. Presidents.
16JWr TIL, Students at the Hillcrest Primary School were celebrating their last day of school by jumping inside of a bounce house when a strong gust of wind blew the bounce house 33 feet into the air with the children still inside causing 6 of them to die after falling out.
Z8Abp TIL that spiders legs extend using hydraulic pressure from their circulatory system, and when they're crushed the legs curl in due to the loss in pressure
RXG8 TIL in a 1955 interview, James Dean talked about safe driving and his last line was ‘Take it easy, the life you might save might be mine’