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TIL that Ben Franklin arguably invented the “Pros and Cons list” as a way of making decisions. In his original 1772 letter, he instructs one to cross out items from each column in pairs of equal significance, and then once one side has been exhausted, the other column yields the verdict.
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TIL the Jimmy Eat World song ‘Hear Me Now’ was in tribute to Mykel and Carli Allan, arguably the biggest Weezer fans of all time. Often they would take in up coming bands, including Jimmy Eat World. Sadly they died in a car accident , along with their sister, after leaving a Weezer concert.
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TIL of Amaro Pargo, arguably the most successful Spanish corsair during the golden age of piracy, he’d attack British & Dutch ships and is known to have fought contemporaries such as blackbeard. He rose to nobility for his services to the Spanish crown and died the richest man on the Canary Islands.
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TIL at the time of the Russian Revolution, the Winter Palace held arguably the best stocked wine cellar in history. The Bolsheviks tried to pipe it out of the palace into the Neva River, to avoid a drunken mob. This led to crowds clustering around the palace drains, and a drunken mob formed anyway
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TIL the Academy Award-winning documentary “Colette” was released as part of the gallery mode for the VR game “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond”. Thus, though not mentioned by name in the citation, “Above and Beyond” is arguably the first video game ever to receive an Oscar for its content.
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