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TIL after James Joyce released his novel Finnegans Wake(one of the most difficult works of fiction in english), H.G Wells sent a letter asking ‘who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousands I have still to live for a proper appreciation of his quirks and fancies’

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5KRn TIL that in WWI, the Germans converted liner SMS Cap Trafalgar into an armed merchant cruiser, which they then disguised as the British liner HMS Carmania. Off the coast of Brazil, Trafalgar was attacked and sunk by a British ship. That ship was also an armed merchant cruiser; the real HMS Carmania.
ANVl TIL, an explorer named 7 mountains after his wife’s nipple
6B8W TIL that at the outbreak of WWII the British people killed 750,000 pets in one week
jJ7Q TIL that aerial dogfights used to be pilots shooting at each other with pistols and throwing bricks
QNrld TIL opossums and possums are two different types of animals, hence not interchangeable names