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TIL that Daniel Stern (Marv from Home Alone) has done over 500 hours of charity work in a single year, started a foundation for teens in Malibu and is an artist of bronze sculptures

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epbb5 TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte wrote a romance novel called Clisson et Eugénie in 1795. It is about a french revolutionary soldier called Clisson who falls in love with a woman at a public bath named Eugénie. After Clisson returns to war Eugénie falls for another man and he commits suicide.
W7p14 TIL that an iconic seventy-foot-tall monument in Sydney’s Hyde Park was initially a sewer ventilation system. The obelisk was unveiled in 1857 under Mayor George Thornton, and thus it became known as “George Thornton’s scent bottle”.
1aRWO TIL in December 1982, when Paul Allen was sick with cancer, he overheard Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing his lack of contributions and how to dilute his equity by offering stock options to other employees and shareholders. Allen confronted them and quit a little bit later.
a8bX9 TIL Roy Bean, an Old West saloon owner who was appointed as a justice of the peace in west Texas, called himself "the only law west of the Pecos". His first act as judge was to shoot up a competitor's saloon. He used his saloon as a courtroom and required jurors to buy a drink during every hearing.
4kv55 TIL that the words cannon, cane, candy, canister and canyon probably share the same Sumerian root which means "reed".