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TIL Winston Churchill wrote the best-selling novel in the United States in 1904

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jmlN TIL After accepting a role in ‘The Girl from Petrovka’ Anthony Hopkins set out to find the book. Unable to find any for sale, he spotted one on a park bench and snagged it. Two years later he was speaking with the author, who lamented having lost his copy with notes. The same copy Sir Hopkins found.
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