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TIL Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel in which a group of shipwrecked survivors draw lots in which the loser will be eaten, the boy who lost was named Richard Parker. 50 years later an English ship sank & the survivors drew lots, the losers name was Richard Parker.

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rRX7o TIL "Point Blank Range" is not necessarily a close shot, but the range at which a gun can shoot directly at a target without any elevation of the barrel.
QNWRk TIL in 1964, the Nth Country Experiment took three recent PhD graduates, gave them unclassified data and, three years yater, they managed to create a working device to produce a nuclear bomb
VBlNB TIL Catholic services were preformed with the priest facing away from the audience until the 1960’s.
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KYXDR TIL sound travels at 343 m/s in air, 1,481 m/s in water (almost 4.3 times as fast) and at 5,120 m/s in iron (almost 15 times as fast) and in diamond sound travels at 12,000 metres per second (39,000 ft/s),[2]— about 35 times its speed in air because of how exceptionally stiff diamond is.