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TIL Robert E Lee didn't want people to build confederate monuments following the Civil War

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epDVL TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long.
E15B0 TIL between 1981 and 1986 Kia had a period in which they didn't make any passenger cars, because government-enforced industry centralisation forced them to move out of that sector and focus on light trucks.
x66X0 TIL that for a brief period in the 1920s, Mongolia was ruled by a German dictator who intended to create a pan-eurasian monarchy spanning from China to Europe
w7m8 TIL that Thailand is the second most common place for American tourists to die abroad, after Mexico.
OGeaX TIL George Miller conceived the film Mad Max:Fury Road in 1987, but it was in development hell for many years. He decided to pursue the film again in 2007, after the release of the animated comedy Happy Feet.