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TIL Napoleon was the greatest general in human history, according to a detailed quantitative analysis in 2017 that was inspired by baseball sabermetrics.

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R75lw National Geographic Fellow Jer Thorp explains the process behind designing "We Were Once Strangers Too," an award-winning public data sculpture that highlighted the role of immigrants in New York City.
nroo TIL that the inventor of birth control was not only a devout Catholic, but designed aspects of the pill in a specific way in order to achieve acceptance from the Catholic church, convinced that they would quickly adopt it.
wo9P TIL that all of Earth’s naturally-occurring gold is within its core. The gold we mine from the planet’s crust was delivered by meteorites.
dmG8 TIL that in response to her husband’s infidelity, a woman from Prague decided to commit suicide by jumping from her third-story balcony. By chance she happened to land on her spouse below, cushioning her fall. She survived, but he died.
p8JGb TIL that in America, there are eight parking spots for every car, collectively taking up as much space as the state of West Virginia.