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[TIL] that Nigel Richards, a former French Scrabble Champion, doesn't speak or understand French

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7r7DO TIL Dr Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian biochemist, lived a full life: shot himself to get out of WW1, got the Nobel prize for isolating vitamin C, had an arrest warrant personally issued by Hitler (for secretly negotiating with the Allies), escaped and hid from the Gestapo for 2 years, and had 4 wives.
wLJ9E TIL that starting a sentence with 'and' is perfectly acceptable.
AD76w TIL dying of laughter is an actual cause of death. The last notable case was when a man of died of laughter because his pulse hit an estimated 250-500 bpm while watching 'A Fish Called Wanda'.
NyZP TIL when Eminem heard Ice Ice Baby for the first time, he “felt like he didn’t want to rap anymore.”
N6mE TIL that big educational companies like Pearson have allowed plugs (ads) for consumer products in their standardized tests