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TIL For the questionnaire of the 1897 census in Russia, in the field “Occupation”, tsar Nicholas II wrote in:“Owner of Russia”

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XEkVk TIL Robert Frost's "A Road Less Traveled" was intended to be a humorous jab at an indecisive colleague. The poem's intent was to convey how both paths are basically the same with the same outcome, so you should just select one randomly and get the fuck on with it already.
Z89GB TIL that while the guillotine was being prototyped, King Louis XVI "recommended that an oblique blade be used instead of a crescent blade, lest the blade not fit all necks". His own was "offered up discreetly as an example". He was later beheaded in 1793 during the French Revolution.
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