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TIL17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheese

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v1W8r TIL In 1802, Napoleon added a Polish legion to fight off the slave rebellion in Haiti. However, the Polish army joined the Haitian slaves in the fight for independence. Haiti's first head of state called Polish people "the White Negroes of Europe", which was then regarded as a great honour.
g58X TIL a German man broke into prison every night to visit his girlfriend
woXJ6 TIL that Three Mile Island Unit 2 initially came online on March 28th, 1978 (the same day as the accident in the following year), but one of it's coolant pumps failed, so the operators postponed its commission until December 30th.
X0Mwj TIL Mercury was still in use for hat making in the U.S. until the 1940's.
BQ6x TIL that Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell” for reasons completely unknown even to the actor himself.