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TIL that a retired Major General suggested in 1935 that wars could be avoided by drafting the upper class before the rest.

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R7nyj TIL Prince recorded the synthesizer solo for "When Doves Cry" at half-speed and an octave lower against a half-speed backing track, speeding it up to create the final version. Keyboardist Matt Fink was tasked with learning and performing it at full speed live.
9w4M TIL Black Irish aren’t black (i.e. of African descent), but rather they generally have dark hair and are most likely related to people who migrated from the Iberian peninsula as the last ice age ended.
nenmB TIL In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.
e0QbJ TIL the movie set built for "Popeye" (1980) has been maintained as a tourist attraction and open-air museum on the island of Malta. People even get married there.
X0O8P TIL Pekin, Illinois was named under the mistaken belief that the city is on the opposite side of the globe from from Beijing, China. It is actually opposite the Indian Ocean.