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[TIL] That there is a timelapse of a life from newlyweds to an elderly woman living alone in We Didn't Start the Fire.

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mxnlx TIL that pirates didn't wear the eyepatches because of a lost eye, it was actually to be able to see below deck, where it was dark.
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