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TIL A Conan The Barbarian sequel starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as an older, grizzled Conan almost happened. Entitled "Legend of Conan" it was inspired by the tone of Clint Eastwoods "Unforgiven" but was cancelled in 2017.

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KOKp6 TIL Edward Bowen and his wife did not board the Lusitania after reading Germany’s warning in the newspaper that Germany would sink the ship. They were the only two that cancelled their plans
yVPO8 TIL Mark Twain never completed his novel The Mysterious Stranger but it was published after his death. The 1916 Paine-Duneka edition was multiple stories spliced together that the editors patched together with their own writings. The original manuscripts were published in 1963.
E1yP0 TIL Beekeeping has been going for thousands of years and it was wide spread in the Levant regions by 1500 BCE. The practice was so important for the local economies that in the Hittite laws the penalties for stealing a swam of bees or empty hive was about the same as the fine for stealing a sheep.
GkVg TIL that in the American Civil War Generals were 50% more likely to die in battle than Privates
9YZ8r TIL Kinshasa, the capital of Congo-Zaire uses robots as traffic police because they can't be bribed.