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TIL that the most active author on r/conspiracy wrote 896,337 words, twice the length of the Lord of the Rings trilogy

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MBVW TIL only 22 countries have not been invaded or attacked by Britain
JOjj TIL Before appearing in his first movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a self made millionaire at 22 years old thanks to his investments in real estate and a mail-order bodybuilding equipment company.
newKb TIL that unlike knives and spoons which have been around since antiquity, forks only appeared in the Middle Ages. They did not see common use for centuries, with records of British sailors ars recently as 1897 refusing to use forks as they considered them effeminate and unmanly.
R7QD4 TIL The last American born into slavery died in 1972 at age 110 after being hit by a car.
1ablW TIL that Marathonist athletes in the early 1900s used brandy, glasses of bubbly, and strychnine (best known now as rat poison) and sometimes even heroin or cocaine to mask pain, increase aggressiveness, and/or give a quick energy boost during races!