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TIL Napoleon III escaped from a fortress where he was serving a life sentence by disguising himself as a laborer and walking through the main gates carrying a large plank over his shoulder to hide his face. Six years later, he became Emperor of France.

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TIL Napoleon III escaped from a fortress where he was serving a life sentence by disguising himself as a laborer and walking through the main gates carrying a large plank over his shoulder to hide his face. Six years later, he became Emperor of France.

u/1salt1pepper — 11 days ago

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TIL Charles Darwin once caught two rare beetles, one in each hand. When he spotted an even rarer third beetle, he refused to let any of them go, so he put one of the first two in his mouth. It sprayed acid down his throat, forcing him to spit it out. In the end, Darwin lost all three.

collections.hampshireculture.org.uk

u/1salt1pepper — 14 days ago

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Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, lost an eye and a hand, survived two plane crashes, tunneled out of a POW camp, and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. After WWI, he wrote: “Frankly, I had enjoyed the war.”

u/1salt1pepper — 15 days ago

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TIL Abraham Lincoln was once challenged to a duel. Given the choice of weapons, the 6’4” Lincoln chose enormous cavalry broadswords, then demonstrated his advantage by chopping down a tree branch above his opponent’s head. The duel was called off.

presidentlincoln.illinois.gov

u/1salt1pepper — 15 days ago

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TIL Thomas Edison created a test for prospective employees that was so difficult his own son, an MIT graduate, failed it. When the questions were published, Albert Einstein failed it too.

u/1salt1pepper — 15 days ago

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The first photograph ever taken of a giant squid, in 1874. Reverend Moses Harvey bought it from a fisherman for $10 and draped it over his bathtub to study it.

u/1salt1pepper — 16 days ago