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TIL that despite Orson Scott Card’s stance against fanfiction, he has written Bible, Isaac Asimov and Shakespeare fanfiction of his own.

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VGE8 TIL that Japan and Russia are still technically fighting World War II, a peace treaty having not been signed due to a continuing dispute over a few islands northeast of Japan.
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