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TIL that of the roughly 615,000 men that Napoleon invaded Russia with, only about 18% managed to return home.

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aRob TIL that the last descendant of the ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died as a spoken language by the 1600s. It has survived until today as the language of religious services of Egypt’s 10% Christian minority-the Copts. The alphabet uses Greek letters plus extra letters deriving from hieroglyphics
xV7Bw TIL that the "China" that actually helped found the UN and sat on the Security Council until 1971 was the Taiwanese government. After this they started losing a lot of international recognition.
kJO8B TIL about the War between Monkeys and Dogs in India. After a pack of dogs killed an infant monkey, a tribe of monkeys began throwing small dogs and puppies off rooftops. After having killed nearly all the dogs in the area, the monkeys started targeting small children.
x61l1 TIL that Julius Caesar was never actually an emperor
rR7YW TIL semi, demi and hemi all essentially mean the same thing (half) but have different language origins.