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TIL that Woody Allen has been working on the same typewriter since he was sixteen and all of his films were written on it.

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v1avj TIL There are three types of dashes. A hyphen (-) connects compound works, like Anglo-Saxon. The En-Dash (–) is used when showing a type of distance or range, like Mon–Fri. The Em-Dash (—) is used to add a thought into a sentence, like "I memorized the state capitals — all fifty of them."
YpXZP TIL : British Submarines carry the Jolly Rodger because a First Lord Sea Admiral said that submarines are ""underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English" and their sailors should be hanged as Pirates
x6Zdo TIL that the future PM of the Netherlands, Victor Marijnen, was involved in having a young man castrated in retaliation for reporting abuse by monks at the children's home Marjinen ran.
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