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TIL there are only 5 people still alive who were born in the 19th Century

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b9ENE TIL there's an award called the 'Bad Sex in Fiction' award. The aim of the award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".
wLERo TIL That Queen Elizabeth II retains real powers like the ability to dissolve the Australian and Canadian parliaments.
1a558 TIL Chipmunks and other small rodents have fast reaction time because they process light faster. They see the world in slow motion.
epZ0J TIL that a piano is a percussion, not string, instrument.
XAgE TIL Marijuana is not illegal or considered a drug in North Korea, and the population uses it as a cheap alternative to cigarets