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Today I learned that Dead Reckoning is a form of navigation that relies on eye-sight, a risky form of navigation.

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ZnDR TIL the Sword in the Stone story was inspired by a real sword stuck in a stone. It was placed there miraculously by the first officially canonized saint in the Catholic Church in the 12th c. It’s still in the stone in a church in Italy.
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