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TIL from 1814-1830 the French flag was just plain white

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Bry9b TIL After capturing Moscow, Napoleon expected Tsar Alexander to sue for peace. The Tsar procrastinated, then heard that Napoleon's army was suffering from lack of supplies: so the Tsar remained absent, & after a month Napoleon had to retreat through the winter, which destroyed his army.
PraE TIL that it is impossible for a centipede to have 100 legs. They have one pair of legs per body segment, but always an odd number of body segments, allowing for 98 and 102 legs, but not 100.
5YJrp TIL that the Burj Khalifa is so tall, that residents above the 80th floor must wait two to three minutes longer to break their fast during Ramadan because you can see the sun for longer than you can on lower levels.
QJD16 TIL that a man by the name of Roger Williams was the galvanizer for Jeffersonian Democracy (ie separation of church and state) and was a staunch proponent for fair dealings with Native Americans. He was a devout man who saw organized religions as bastardizations of faith and God.
w46o TIL chicken was considered a luxury food in the United States until the discovery of vitamin D in 1922, allowing chickens to thrive indoors and during the winter season.