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TIL although Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” outsold any other book of its time, he didn’t make any profit, instead donating the sales to buy mittens for the troops in the American Revolution

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W7LMo TIL that Terry Crews is a very talented illustrator. He apparently had an art scholarship before he had a football scholarship.
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