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TIL that "the Winchester – Shaun of the Dead" received 10,000 votes for a Lego project but Lego decided that "This is the first time we’ve felt that we should turn a LEGO CUUSOO idea down"

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xVMMo TIL that 20% of all wars over the last 200 years account for over 98% of fatalities
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