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TIL: James Joyce has love letters considered so vulgar to this day no publisher will print them.

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pkn4 TIL of Paul Powell, an Illinois politician who was found dead in his hotel sweet residence in Springfield, IL with $800,000 in cash, 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios, and 2 cases of creamed corn.
lyl5 TIL that in 1997, 14 year old Nathan Zohner was able to get 43 out of 50 of his classmates to vote to ban “Dihydrogen Monoxide” for his science fair project. His project aimed to prove that the use of true facts can lead the ignorant public to false conclusions. He won first prize.
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