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TIL George Washington preferred pot to alcohol
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TIL Sea Otters are known to hold hands in groups - called a raft - while they eat, sleep and rest, to prevent families losing each other while adrift on water.
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TIL that the stop sign has a unique eight-sided shape so that drivers facing the back of the sign know that oncoming drivers have a stop sign.
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TIL there is a Russian version of the Lord of the Rings based on the premise that the original LOTR is a "history written by the victors;" in reality Mordor was on the verge of an industrial revolution which was a threat to the war-mongering and imperialistic faction represented by Gandalf/the elves
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TIL that All Quiet on the Western Front had a sequel. Although the first book's protagonist dies at the end, the Road Back focuses on the return of his demoralized comrades to a ruined German society.
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TIL Martin Luther was virulently antisemitic and his writings were used by the Nazis to justify their hatred of Jews