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TIL that Victor Hugo slept with so many prostitutes that on the day he died, all the brothels in Paris closed to mourn.

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R784Q TIL the small country of Costa Rica ran 300 days out of 100% renewable energy
kJ054 TIL during the cold war NATO conducted an experiment to find the best way to shot down helicopters with their jets, to everyone surprise helicopters proved to be a formidable foe to Jets and managed to get up to a 5-to-1 kill ratio against Jets in close combat.
W7y0B TIL in 2020 a bar-tailed godwit broke the "world record" for the longest flight by a bird, flying for 11 days straight from Alaska to New Zealand, a distance of over 12,000 km or 7,500 miles.
Y71kd TIL that in 1984, a British grandmother made the world's first online at-home consumer purchase using her TV remote. She was ordering groceries from the local Tesco.
v15Lr TIL Napoleon's worst defeat may not have been Waterloo. In a scene worthy of Monty Python, Napoleon was forced to flee a swarm of rabbits that they were supposed to be hunting. The organizers of the hunt mistakenly purchased domesticated rabbits; the bunnies "attacked" the party expecting treats.