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TIL in 1941, with a lot of the Home Guard unarmed, Churchill wrote to the War Office that "every man must have a weapon of some sort, be it only a mace or a pike". The War Office took him literally and order 250,000 pikes, there was an uproar and none were ever issued.

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M7ROW TIL the Persian King Agha Mohammad Khan commanded the killing of two attendants for their loudness. On a holy day, he delayed their execution for a day and had them go back to their work. The attendants assassinated the king while he was sleeping that night.
jN68E TIL Tax resistance has probably existed ever since rulers began imposing taxes on their subjects, evenbefore 1500 A.D. Tax resistance played a significant role in the collapse of several empires, including the Egyptian, Roman, Spanish, and Aztec
dNMB TIL that there is a mutation of the gene CCR5, called Delta 32, which introduces a premature stop codon into the gene. This premature codon means cells that have this mutation can’t receive the HIV virus. Individuals with a homozygous CCR5-Delta 32 mutation are completely resistant to the HIV virus.
PJKg TIL famous mathematician Paul Erdos was once challenged to quit taking amphetamines for one month by a concerned friend. He succeeded, but complained “You’ve showed me I’m not an addict, but I didn’t get any work done…you’ve set mathematics back a month”.
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