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Oftentimes, online, I'll stumble across one of those threads somewhere

entitled something like what's the most mind-blowing historical fact you know

occasionally there I'll see something totally new and exciting but

usually it's the same five or six answers. And I don't mean to disparage those

threads. I'm glad people are having these discussions and talking about cool

historical tidbits. And many people, normal people, people who don't spend as much

time with their noses buried in history books as I do, can glean a lot of interesting

stuff from them. They can learn and discover new topics about which they'd like to learn more,

but once you've seen a couple of those threads, you've kind of seen them all.

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