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Wk5wA TIL the massive cannons used by the Ottomans to besiege and capture Constantinople in 1453 were again bought out for a bombardment against the Royal Navy, almost 400 years later, in 1807
9wpJM TIL Bunny chow does not refer to a bunny but is the name of a South African fast food dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of white bread (or sometimes brown bread) filled with curry and salad.
kJYv5 TIL B-17 crews in WWII were volunteers, they could quit flying at any time. They had some of the highest casualty rates of any service in the war yet thousands continued to fly.
5Yvyp TIL that no one is sure who wrote the original music to the song "Respect," most famously sung by Aretha Franklin. The original performer, Otis Redding, gets the sole songwriting credit, but he took the music and some of the lyrics from an artist who had copied it from another unknown guitarist.
wLo6 TIL Julius Caesar wrote fan fiction of Hercules and Oedipus in his youth.