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TIL Annie Oakley could have stopped WWI
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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.”
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TIL George R. R. Martin only wrote four episodes of Game of Thrones. He was originally planned to write one episode per season but stopped after season 4 to focus on other writing (A Song of Ice and Fire).
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TIL when it was discovered that individual letters of early Gutenberg Bibles were identical in appearance, a Bible salesman was accused of witchcraft — the red ink text was said to have been written in blood — and thrown in jail.
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TIL a 2009 Chevy Malibu would absolutely destroy a classic muscle car during a car crash
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TIL there is a piece of moon rock in a space-themed stained glass window in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.