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by DamnInteresting 288 days ago
> "War and Peace" had a working title "War, what is it good for" before his mistress insisted he change it.

I suspect that you are being facetious, but for the benefit of anyone else reading, this is not true. It's a "factoid" (an invented fact mistaken as true)[1] spawned from a joke on the TV program Seinfeld[2].

This has been your daily wet blanket.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqS1Ty79mOE

1 comments

booooooo!!
Oh no, a spooky ghost!

(Unless, of course, you were saying "Boooourrrns")