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The author says he's been writing daily while isolating to avoid Covid-19, raising fans' hopes that he might complete Winds of Winter.

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w4EP TIL in Hamburg, Germany, there is a Food Additives Museum dedicated to the emulsifiers, stabilizers, dyes, thickeners, preservatives, and flavorings in our everyday foods. The exhibits explains the history and current landscape of food additives in an informational rather than political way.
vaQ4 TIL King George V’s physician gave the dying king a lethal dosage of morphine and cocaine to hasten his death so that it could be announced in the morning edition of The Times rather than “less appropriate evening journals”
64Jl TIL that the first European to discover New Zealand, Abel Tasman, thought he landed in South America. While discovering the island, he also managed to miss all of Australia.
X0AYR TIL that the best selling commemorative US stamp is an Elvis stamp