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TIL that the San Francisco Fog has a twitter account and its name is Karl

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RGm4 TIL that when Napoleon returned to France from Elba, he approached some of the first troops sent to arrest him and opened his coat, “If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am.” They joined him instead.
LkLaV TIL about a vigilante from the 1970s who called himself captain sticky. He was a peanut butter and jelly themed crime fighter who had a car that squirted PB&J from the front that he would use to stop kids from stealing hub caps and making graffiti. He later started targeting shady businesses.
4kvnR TIL in Shanghai every weekend there is a marriage market, parents and grandparents of unmarried adults gather in a park and trade information on their children/grandchildren (height, weight, income, occupation...) with the goal to find them a suitable partner.
5Y7Z8 TIL in 1971 a woman asked a judge to sterilize her “somewhat retarded” 15-year old daughter without her knowledge, which he granted that day without a hearing. She later sued him, but it was ruled he was immune because he ordered it as a judicial function, even though he ignored due process.
LQx5m TIL of Ziad Fazah. He claims to be able to speak, read and understand 59 languages.