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TIL that when William Faulkner gave his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, the audience did not understand him due to his deep Southern accent; when the speech was printed in the papers the next day, it was hailed as one of the greatest Nobel Prize acceptance speeches ever

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