About Götz von Berlichingen, also known as Götz of the Iron Hand, who lost his right hand to cannon fire in 1504 and had it replaced with a mechanical iron prosthetic. Götz is remembered for his response to an enemy's order to surrender: “Tell him he ca…https://t.co/2YXmjabfCX
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Koreans eat about 600 million chickens per year and Korean fried chicken (or KFC) and beer is so popular that its facination has spread to China via Korean soap operas. A Chinese company once flew all 4500 of its employees to Korea so they all can have …https://t.co/NVOxQrcgGq
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Biologists went to Bikini Atoll a year after the nuclear tests, caught a fish, held it up to photograph paper, and took an x-ray image using rays coming from inside the fish.https://t.co/e0IBpLGPAc
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Every name in The Lord of the Rings is actually a translation. For instance, Merry, Pippin, and Sam are translations of Kalimac Brandagamba, Razanur Tûc, and Banazîr Galbasihttps://t.co/COZPljcahF
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Papyrus 115, fragments of a page of the Book Of Revelation from the 3rd Century CE that gives the "Number of the Beast" as 616 rather than 666https://t.co/DWmldYthcN
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Stanley Kubrick recorded a typist hammering out “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” because he believed each typewriter key made a slightly different sound and he wanted the audio track of “The Shining” to be perfectly accurate.https://t.co/fEcHBpcD4U
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Shazam is an acronym that identifies six historical/mythological figures: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.https://t.co/iGMjo7rrZ9
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