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TIL Stephen King's father was born Donald Pollock. He changed his last name to King sometime between the ages of 18 and 23. He went out to get cigarettes when Stephen was 2 year old and never came home.

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gDd8 TIL one of the earliest weapons of mass destruction was used during the Siege of Antwerp in 1585. A Dutch explosive fire ship containing 4 tons of explosive rammed a fortified Spanish bridge, killing 800 spaniards, causing a small tsunami, and vibrating windows 22 miles away
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