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TIL - Bruce Willis once bought 12,000 girl-scout cookies for millitary service members in the middle east

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v1Rnx TIL that at the conclusion of WW1, Kaiser Wilhelm II mistakenly believed that he ruled the German Empire in a personal union with Prussia, and so he could abdicate the former but still remain king of the latter. This was not the case, and he was forced to abdicate both.
RQQ1 TIL that the first gunpowder weapon was actually a melee spear with a one shot flamethrower attached called a fire lance used by the Chinese around year 1000.
E6PX TIL L.A. mobster Johnny Stompanato dated 50s actress Lana Turner, once held Sean Connery at gunpoint on a movie set out of jealousy, was then disarmed and beaten by Connery, and later stabbed to death by Turner’s 14-year-old daughter.
ADkoB TIL the Aztec death whistle produces a horrifying sound sometimes described as “the scream of thousand corpses”
pY1OG TIL that Nicaragua has English-speaking islands