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TIL the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by rabbits and forced to retreat. In 1807, after signing a treaty, he proposed a rabbit hunt with his men for which, his chief of staff collected over 3000 bunnies. When the hunt began, the rabbits charged towards him and his men in a vicious attack.

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X0V0P TIL Before the Battle of Stamford Bridge, King Harold Godwinson offered his traitor brother, supporting the Norse under Harald Hardrada, his earldom back if he would betray Harald. When asked by his brother what he would give Hardrada for his trouble, Godwinson replied "Seven feet of English ground"
VBp6G TIL a woman named Sara Jane Moore tried to kill U.S. president Gerald Ford. She was in prison for 32 years. When asked about her crime in an interview, Moore stated, "I am very glad I did not succeed. I know now that I was wrong to try."
Z5nD TIL that Count Bernadotte, the famous Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from concentration camps during WW2, was murdered in 1948 by militant Zionists (approved by a future Prime Minister) while serving as UN peace mediator in the Holy Land.
W7pOX TIL the annular solar eclipse means "ring" solar eclipse, and is not the same as total solar eclipse when you experience it
DJWV TIL Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue full of joke science, like one paper that said men die before women because they are stupid. But years later these articles are cited by scientists as real, and this is causing a lot of problems.