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TIL there was a 50,000 word novel written in 1939 that doesn’t use a single letter “E”

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BrM6e TIL of Hitchens's razor. Basically: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"
nbY7 TIL: King Cadwaladr of Gwynedd once ordered his men to put leeks on their helmets to identify themselves in a battle against the Saxons. To this day, the Leek is the national symbol of Wales
6E7NQ TIL due to high ruble inflation during the fall of the USSR, parody dollar bills dropped by AC/DC during their concert in Moscow were used in monetary transactions and considered more valuable than rubles.
7GRM TIL Robin Williams took his video-game-loving son’s advice when deciding to name his daughter Zelda.
p8WyQ TIL that the artificial banana flavoring was based on the Gros Michel: the predominant banana that went extinct in the 60's (replaced by the current less flavorful Cavendish). Today, when you eat something "banana" flavored, you're tasting species of banana that went extinct long ago.