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TIL Napoleon's 1st language was Corsican, his 2nd language was Italian, and he did not learn to speak his 3rd language-- French-- until he was almost 10 years old.

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gx8X TIL in 1951 a 21 year old Clint Eastwood was a passenger aboard a Douglas AD-1 bomber that ran out of fuel and ditched off the coast of California. He escaped serious injury and swam 3 miles to shore.
a0GJ TIL Mohammed al Qahtani (20th hijacker of the 9/11 attacks) was interrogated at Guantanamo Bay by dripping water, physical torture, prolonged strip searches, and invasion of space by a female, none of which worked; it was continuously hearing Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” that finally broke him.
6M7m TIL People who drink whole milk are less likely to be fat than those who consume low-fat milk.
oa08 Today I Learned of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
woJg6 TIL There was a home-made cryogenic “facility” in Colorado with one person in it since 1993.