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TIL The Count of Monte Cristo has never been out of print in most modern languages

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ADdm7 TIL that the heavy metal band Black Sabbath originally started wearing crosses to ward off a curse. After denying an offer to play at Stonehenge, the satanists hosting the event claimed to cast a curse on the band.
D1PAj TIL the American government manipulated the outcomes of every Italian election for at least 24 years, starting in 1946
8eNA4 TIL David Suzuki was beaten as a child at a Japanese concentration camp in Canada by both ethnic Japanese and white children
D1O4r TIL Nepal, a tiny Himalayan nation, contributed almost 200,000 men and £1,000,000 to the British government during WW1
7rm9O TIL I suffer with Laryngospasm. During the night I wake up choking on my own stomach acid.