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TIL French Texans planned to use a primitive submarine to smuggle Napoleon, from exile, into America and start another Empire there.

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XEKr6 TIL: One housecat (ever) survived spaceflight. Test animal C-341 later renamed Félix and then Félicette was blasted into a suborbital flight on a French rocket in 1963. Seeking to examine her brain for possible space-induced changes, some weeks after her historic flight scientists euthanized her.
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