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TIL: Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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AN84w TIL Molly Kool became the first female sea captain in North America in 1939. She survived three major shipwreck incidents: a deliberate ramming, a collision that threw her overboard under the ship, and a gasoline explosion.
VBJJ4 TIL of NewBrew, a Singaporean beer made with recycled toilet water. It was made to promote Singapore's "NEWater" water reclamation plants that turn sewage into drinking water
oRdGY TIL An unexplained phenomenon in neuroscience is the discovery that electrical stimulation in temporal neocortex can cause neurosurgical patients to spontaneously experience memory retrieval. (2012)
J5Bv TIL It is legal to open carry a sword in California, but only if it’s sheathed.
a8gZo TIL that Steve Kerr named his son Nick