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TIL About A Void, a 300-page French novel that is entirely written without the letter E

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e0OLk TIL the Medal of Honor recipient and commander of the "Lost Battalion" in WW1, Charles W. Whittlesey, is thought to have committed suicide several years after the war.
Oog0R TIL that Stephen Pruitt has made more than 2,500,000 edits to Wikipedia articles (he's edited a third of Wikipedia's nearly 5.7 million pages) and has generated more than 31,000 original articles in the past 13 years.
VVOQ TIL ordering a “black and tan” in Ireland will get you kicked out of a pub, as British paramilitary troops wore Black and Tan uniforms .
WkdaL TIL Qatar has the highest human sex ratio between 25-54 years old, with 4.91 males per female
kJWd7 TIL about the Lockheed CL-1201, a 1960s design for a nuclear powered, supersonic, flying aircraft carrier. If it had made it to the prototype phase, its wingspan would have been twice as long as any aircraft today.