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N7VyP TIL in 1815, when Napoleon Bonaparte was thrown overboard due to rough seas, a random fisherman's Newfoundland dog jumped into the water from the fisherman's boat and kept Napoleon afloat until he could reach safety.
p8p8e TIL In 2015, Neil Moore, a prisoner serving time for a $2.7 million fraud conviction, walked out the front gate of a high security prison by forging his own release papers.
4NEX TIL that Ian Stevenson, psychiatrist and re-incarnation researcher, left a combination lock in a filing cabinet in the 1960s, with the hope of passing on the code after his death (in February, 2007). As of February, 2007, it remains unopened.
dDGK TIL portabello mushrooms, button mushrooms, and white mushrooms are all the same mushroom at different levels of maturity.
Z8rl4 TIL about Dulmial a village in Pakistan, known as the “village with the gun” and “Hometown of gunners” which provided 460 soldiers to the British forces in WWI the largest participation of any village in South Asia. It was awarded with a canon in recognition to its WWI contributions by the British.