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TIL: Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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69PZW TIL that four years after the RMS Titanic sunk, its sister ship, the RMS Britannic, also sunk after striking a German mine. Then, in 1918, the RMS Carpathia - known as the the ship that rescued the Titanic’s survivors, also sunk after being torpedoed by a German submarine.
OGkJ4 TIL that Pink Floyd’s The Wall is designed as an endless loop. The final track, “Outside the Wall,” ends with “Isn’t this where...”, and the album starts with “... we came in?” continuing the last song’s melody, highlighting the cyclical theme of Water’s concept.
Z9xQ TIL that Dan Schneider, the weird manager in Nickelodeon’s Good Burger, created and wrote Victorious, iCarly, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, and What I Like About You, making him the most successful writer/tv executive in Children’s Entertainment Television for the last thirty years.
rRVyW TIL there are still dry counties in the USA where the sale of any kind of alcohol is prohibited. Some of these, like Moore Country, Tennessee, date back to the passage of state prohibition laws in the early 20th century.
E1blw TIL the crew of Christopher Nolan's TENET saved a man from committing suicide.