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TIL that the aluminium based Airstream was the only travel trailer builder in America to survive the Great Depression.

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GYpwj TIL that in 1961 JRR Tolkien was rejected by Nobel Prize committee because The Lord Of The Rings had 'not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality'.
R7Now TIL Dexter Holland, lead singer of punk band The Offspring, was a doctoral candidate for a PhD in molecular biology, but left before graduating as his music career was blossoming. He eventually returned to the University of Southern California to finish his degree, which he was awarded in May 2017.
ne9EB TIL a "nickelodeon" is a small movie theater that shows short-films for a nickel, from the early 1905-1915
JYlek TIL the youngest person to climb to the summit of the 14,180-foot Mount Shasta in California was the seven-year-old Eva Luna Harper-Zahn.
DQXEp TIL about Ngerulmud, the capital of Palau and the least populous capital city in the world. It has an official population of 0.