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Jul 22, 2020

TIL in 1954, Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days. He was presumed dead almost 24 hours later until he was spotted coming out of the jungle carrying bananas and a bottle of gin.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL about Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy that solved his own murder case. He was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel. Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service

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Jul 15, 2020

TIL Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was the inspiration for the Bond Villain in Tomorrow Never Dies. At the end of the film M orders a cover-up story paralleling Maxwell's real death, “Falling overboard on his yacht."

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Jun 02, 2020

TIL British academics conducted an experiment with 6 monkeys & typewriters inspired by the famed "an infinite number of monkeys will eventually type out Shakespeare's plays" theory. After 4 weeks, the monkeys had typed out 5 pages, mostly of the letter S, then "got bored and shit on the keyboard"

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May 27, 2020

TIL during the filming of the original pilot of Game of Thrones, the Danny/Drogo sex scene was filmed outside with their horses behind them. They had to stop the scene because people on set started laughing. Turns out one of the horses got turned on and their giant horse boner was on camera.

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May 08, 2020

TIL that J.K. Rowling wrote a real person into The Goblet of Fire. The girl was named Natalie McDonald, a Harry Potter fan who was dying of leukaemia while Rowling was still writing the book. You see her character as a first-year who dons the sorting hat and is sorted into Gryffindor.

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May 06, 2020

TIL: Ernest Hemingway ended up being quarantined for most of the Summer with his wife and his mistress in 1926

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May 02, 2020

TIL: The oldest surviving book in the world is made of gold and was found by someone digging a trench for a canal only 70 years ago in Bulgaria

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May 01, 2020

TIL Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is sold once every 30 seconds somewhere around the world.

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Apr 13, 2020

TIL European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), native to Europe, were first introduced by Shakespeare enthusiasts in 1890 in Central Park, NY with the release of about 100 birds, and they are now one of the most abundant and destructive birds in North America with a population of roughly 200 million.

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Apr 01, 2020

TIL, acclaimed novelist Kurt Vonnegut loved the TV show Cheers, even claiming, "I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written" (#9 on the list)

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Mar 25, 2020

TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.

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Mar 20, 2020

TIL Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is a big Lord of the Rings fan, and under the pseudonym ‘Ingahild Grathmer’ helped to illustrate the danish version of the book

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Mar 20, 2020

TIL, old books have a particular smell due to lignin being present in the paper. Lignin is related to vanillin, leading them to have a faint vanilla scent.

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Mar 19, 2020

TIL about "The Great Leveler," a book that argues that the greatest redistributions of wealth in history are during times of war, plague, and catastrophe, citing the Black Death and WWI as "actually suppressing inequality, by raising the price of labour."

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Mar 14, 2020

TIL about Jack London. Oyster pirate, Socialist, and rail rider. Berkeley attendee, trekked the Yukon and Chilkoot Pass, took a rowboat 1500 miles down the Yukon River to the Bering Sea. Built his own yacht and mansion and wrote 23 novels, 7 plays, short stories, and poems. Died of alcoholism age 40

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Feb 18, 2020

TIL after his presidency, US Grant lost nearly every cent in a Ponzi scheme. Shortly after, he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Pushing through the pain, and with the help of Mark Twain, Grant penned his autobiography in order to not leave his wife with no financial security.

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Feb 14, 2020

TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.

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Feb 07, 2020

TIL that Herman Melville had difficulty finding a publisher for Moby Dick. In a letter to Melville, one publisher asked "why does it have to be a whale?" and suggested that Captain Ahab struggle with "a depravity towards young, perhaps voluptuous, maidens" instead.

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Feb 05, 2020

Today I learned that the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, carried her dead husbands heart wherever she went.

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