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TIL In 1958 the French Army invaded Corsica and planned to attack Paris. There was a crisis in Algeria at the time and French generals wanted Charles de Gaulle to return to power to deal with the issue. The invasion of Paris was canceled when parliament invited de Gaulle to be Prime Minister again.

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kJpLB TIL Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, tried to convince his colleagues to wash their hands before delivering babies because he noticed lower levels of infections. His colleagues were offended that he would dare suggest they would be “unclean!” Ultimately Dr. Semmelweis was committed to an insane asylum.
AD9MB TIL: Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem
LQdDV TIL There's a period of the history of Earth (1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago) that is called the "Boring Billion" due to nothing much happening geologically, climatically or (mostly) evolutionarily.
RaG6 TIL That during and shortly after the JFK assassination a woman was seen and photographed holding a camera and stayed after most witnesses fled the seen. She has never been identified.Nor has the footage she may have took been found.
KYGBw TIL about Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Jewish Hungarian-born adventure and convicted con artist who lived as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British M.P., German politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.