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TIL that Napoleon’s “love stick” was cut off during autopsy, smuggled off the island by his Chaplin, sold between a few book companies, and is now owned by a daughter of a urologist.

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JYOp4 TIL that the CIA parachuted hundreds of people into North Korea throughout the 1950s to start resistance networks and, despite never hearing from most of them again, continued to parachute more in until an inquiry in the 1970s questioned the morality of such an initiative.
PY5bV TIL of Harold Shipman, an English GP who is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in history. In 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of the murder of 15 patients under his care, with his total number of victims estimated to be around 250.
VJD8 TIL John Cusack has trained in kickboxing for over 20 years and is a sixth-degree black belt.
d86gZ TIL Slaves were given redacted bibles so they would not read anything that could cause them to rebel. Most of the old testament and half of the new testament was omitted.
D1BwP TIL the video game industry makes more revenue than the film and music industry combined.