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TIL that Napoleon married his second wife by proxy and met her for the first time two weeks later. Upon meeting she remarked "you are much better-looking than your portrait."

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4jea TIL that South Africa is the only country in the world to independently develop nuclear weapons and then give them up: 6 finished warheads were dismantled in 1989.
mxa6p TIL Amherstburg Freedom Museum in Ontario preserves and presents artifacts of African-Canadians, many of whose ancestors had entered Canada from United States. They found it relatively easy to enter Canada from across the Detroit River
5QE8 TIL Jimmy Carter de-regulated the beer market making it possible for craft brew
awK8y TIL A study with over 1,600 patients concluded that acetaminophen is ineffective for low back pain and it worked no better than placebo to speed up recovery
jNJlv TIL of Ralph Lazo, a 17-year old American student of Mexican and Irish descent, who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp, to provide moral support and share in his friends’ struggle; he would spend three years living there