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TIL that H.G. Wells so disliked the drawings of the Martian Tripods included in the first published versions of The War of the Worlds that he wrote a criticism of them into the book.

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WXZ8 TIL, After bombing of Hiroshima some people moved to Nagasaki, 165 of these survived both the atomic bombings
W75p8 TIL that in medieval depictions of Moses, he is depicted as having horns, because the Latin word in Exodus ‘cornutam’ can either mean ‘shining’ or ‘horns’. One example is Michaelengo’s Moses in Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. The tradition ended around the time of this sculpture.
Z0JQ TIL there have been more Chinese slaves than African slaves
KYNZB TIL In 1890 a political struggle over seating a republican from West Virginia turned so heated it became called the "Battle of the Reed Rules". Speaker Reed ordered the doors barred to prevent a quorum from being denied, though Constantine Kilgore of Texas escaped by kicking a door down.
epvZb TIL the concept of cow tipping, the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment, apparently developed in the 1970s, though tales of animals that cannot rise if they fall has historical antecedents dating to the Roman Empire.