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TIL that during World War One up to 12 million letters a week were delivered to soldiers, many on the front line

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yVX5M TIL that in 1967, Jim Morrison was set to star in the Andy Warhol “I, a Man” - where the main character has a series of sexual encounters with eight women. Morrison later backed out of the film, and his friend Tom Baker took over the role.
POee TIL that Marvel Comics’ Deadpool character (Wade Wilson) started as a parody of DC’s Deathstroke (Slade Wilson)
1M94 TIL the story of Abraham Bolden, a former Secret Service agent who testified to the Warren Commission about a secret Chicago assassination plot against JFK. Shortly thereafter, he was arraigned on federal charges and jailed for six years.
bYBp TIL: There are cupcakes that are named as such, not because of their shape, but because they are made using ingredient increments of 1 Cup measurements.
Ny0M TIL Ernest Hemingway once out drank 14 Chinese army officers. “Slowly officers grew scarlet in the face and slid beneath the table; others went green-white and fell as if shot,”…Hemingway, by contrast, “was planted on his feet like Atlas.”