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TIL Agatha Christie sold an estimated 300 million books during her lifetime. Her total earnings are the equivalent of $91 million in today's money. However, due to awful financial planning, upon her death her will left only £106,683.

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neZb9 TIL Napoleon divorced his wife, Josephine, due to her being unable to produce an heir. However, he insisted she retain the Empress title and they remained on good terms. Napoleon's last words before dying were, "France, the Army, the Head of the Army, Joséphine."
kBYe TIL the blast of air you feel when walking into a store is to prevent insects from flying in.
D1evD TIL to combat the spread of smallpox during the Civil War, soldiers would find someone with cowpox, cut open their pustules, and infect themselves with it. The less harmful cowpox made them immune to smallpox, but they sometimes confused cowpox with syphilis and gave themselves an STD instead.
5Y5Gp TIL that Normandy could have been lined with tanks on D-Day if Hitler wasn’t asleep.
RG86 TIL Guy Fawkes wasn’t executed, he died by breaking his neck falling from the platform built to hang him