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TIL the song from the movie 1917 ‘I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger’ was originally sung by Johnny Cash

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vKZD TIL Prisencolinensinainciusol was an Italian No. 1 pop hit written in fake American English. This is what English sounds like to foreigners. [4:02]
pgRA TIL Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi had secured free passage on the Titanic’s maiden voyage but decided to take an earlier ship to catch up on work. Three years later he disembarked the Lusitania right before it was sunk by a German U-Boat.
0gM TIL the moment after an argument when you think of a really good comeback but it’s too late is called “L'esprit d'escalier”, or “stairway wit”.
p058 TIL after his wife died because the nearest doctor was 70km away, Dashrath Manjhi carved a 360-foot-long and 30-foot-wide path through a mountain in 22 years, using a hammer and a chisel to make the path from his village to Wazirganj, with its doctors, jobs, and school, only 15 km away.
DQpLJ TIL that Thomas Harris, best known for creating the character of Hannibal Lecter, has only written six novels in a span of 48 years. Stephen King has said that for Harris, "the very act of writing is a kind of torment.”