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TIL There's a French war song, the "Song of the Onion" which goes "I love the onion when it's fried with oil, I love the onion when it's good [...] But no onions for the Austrians." which originated when Napoleon commended his soldiers for eating onions before the Battle of Marengo.

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yQ5Xe TIL of Hajimi Fuji, who volunteered for the kamikaze but was refused acceptance because he had a wife and two young children. To honour his wish his wife drowned her two young girls and drowned herself. Hajimi then flew as a kamikaze pilot,meeting his death on the 28th May 1945.
LkVWP TIL Rep. Ed Orcutt suggested a CO₂ tax for cyclists/bikers because "they exercise and breathe hard and therefore exhale more CO₂", claiming biking is bad for the environment.
W7VZ9 TIL that every year around 1 million people commit suicide with attempted suicides being about 20 times more common.
vWVK TIL that scientists discovered an eel had lived inside a shark’s heart in “a facultatively parasitic relationship” in 1997.
lk9B TIL that cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, savoy, kohlrabi and others are all technically the same plant. Through history, different cultures bred the plant to express different qualities, creating the varied cultivars we see today.