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TIL Napoleon was sexually obsessed with his mistress Josephine, encouraging her not to bathe for days to retain her own scent, and that she had a signature sex move he called the “zigzag.”

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9VLX TIL a Hiroshima policeman went to Nagasaki to teach police about ducking after the atomic flash. As a result of this timely warning, not a single Nagasaki policeman died.
Oov4 TIL Tommy Boy is a rendition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Tommy is the Prince, his father dies, his mother (Bo Derek) is Gertrude, in reality married to his “step brother” (Rob Lowe) who is Claudius. David Spade’s character is Horatio.
Y7elG TIL in Japan they used to keep time so that there was always 6 hours of night and 6 hours of day, so an “hour” changed length in winter and summer
M7g7K TIL "Don't Mess With Texas" started as a slogan for an anti littering campaign
mxVDO TIL that in 1993, the entire city of San Francisco voted about whether a police officer was allowed to carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty while on patrol. He was.