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TIL that in 1969 a writer committed suicide after failing to publish his novel. In 1981 said novel won a Pulitzer.

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a4KZ TIL that in 1932, a small Austrian town greatly reduced unemployment by issuing a new currency that would automatically lose 1 percent of its value for each month that it went unspent. Hundreds of towns in the U.S. set up similar systems, but in 1933 President Roosevelt outlawed them.
BgyPx TIL some chapters of the NAACP boycotted the movie "The Color Purple" in 1985 because they felt it portrayed Black men in a negative light
QDAL TIL that, in 2008, about 30,000 high school students agreed to write “this is Sparta” in their AP exam booklets.
0wkPy TIL That an american doctor that survived Ebola, contracted the virus in his eye, turning it green, and regained his eyesight by taking a non-FDC approved experimental secret drug.
epjdJ TIL while Lion King(1994) earned $2 billion in box office and home media, it earned $3 billion and $8 billion in merchandising and stage adatation respectively.