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TIL that after medieval king of Scotland Robert the Bruce wandered away from his army he was charged at by an English knight. Instead of retreating Bruce charged and killed the Englishmen by smashing his head with an axe.

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LKMP TIL in 1979 Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House, saying, “In the year 2000 this solar water heater… can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, or can be a part of one of the greatest adventures ever undertaken by the American people.” They are now in a museum in China.
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WjGL TIL that in a 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote that Germany’s next war will be a world war, “eight to ten million soldiers will massacre one another” and “the devastations of the Thirty Years’ War” will be “compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent.”