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TIL Wallace Shawn(Princess Bride, Toy Story, etc) began his acting career starring in an adaption of The Mandrake, a comedy written by Niccolo Machiavelli, the author of The Prince. Shawn translated the script to english himself

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M0A0 TIL there is a narcotic named ‘Scopolamine’, that, when blown into your face or placed in your drink, renders you incapable of exercising your free will, and wipes your memory of the events that took place.
PYm0L TIL that to celebrate his 6 millionth pound of dropped ordnance, Clarence J. Stoddard bombed North Vietnam with a toilet.
VkJm TIL that I, V, X, L, C, D, M aren’t the only letters used in roman numerals; “S” is used to represent ½ along with dots for other fractions
loLXB TIL of Amedeo Guillet, an Italian WWII officer who led the last-ever cavalry charge against the British Army and won. The last cavalry commander in history, he died in 2010 at the age of 101.
aw5L TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”