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TIL the Blockbuster Video store in Bend, Oregon is the last in the world

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Qwok TIL The French government forced Madame Tussaud to make models of her friends’ decapitated heads
ROEQ TIL Mozart once conducted an orchestra, at the demands of the crowd, after standing during the performance and shouting that the orchestra had played a wrong note.
nW7aP TIL that when the Martini originated a century ago, the ratio of gin to vermouth was 2:1. Today the typical ratio is 6:1 or higher
rRoQ0 TIL A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was written over a period of three weeks after he was misdiagnosed with brain cancer and given a year to live.He decided to spend that year writing five novels to provide for his wife after his death. Ironically, he outlived her.
wLQb6 TIL of Manto Mavrogenous who was a rich, aristocratic woman from Mykonos, Greece. She equipped, manned, & privateered fleets and armies at her own expense to fight the Ottoman Turks in 1822. When the war was over, she was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General by Greece.