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TIL Napoleon's grandnephew was a US lieutenant.
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TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”
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TIL narrative principle Chekhov's gun states that every element in a story must be necessary e.g., if you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following act it should be fired. Otherwise, don't put it there. Thus, I finally found the right word to express my frustration with Game of Thrones
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TIL of Nick Leeson, a broker who single-handedly bankrupted the UK's oldest merchant bank after losing almost £850 million on the stock market.
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TIL of the ‘Window Tax’, where people were taxed based on the number of windows they had on their houses. This was used in the 18th century as a simple method to calculate tax obligations. However, many people bricked up their windows, leading to health problems.
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TIL that through 50 years of experimentation investigating the domestication of wolves, scientists in the USSR (and later Russia) successfully domesticated the Silver Fox, a breed of foxes that behave like dogs