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TIL Gerard Way the lead singer of My Chemical Romance wrote the comic series The Umbrella Academy

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LQ1Dm TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly
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