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TIL: "Archers Paradox". Whilst straight, arrows were actually designed to flex and bend in flight

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78QmL TIL that the author Louisa May Alcott, most famous for "Little Women", wrote several pulpy thrillers early in her career that she called “blood and thunder tales”, often using the pseudonym A.M. Barnard.
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J1KE8 TIL that Queen Elizabeths mother, who died in 2002, lived so long that she was born in the Victorian era
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