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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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Z8Jjv TIL when Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci earned the first perfect score in the Olympics, the scoreboard displayed "1.00" instead of a perfect "10". Omega SA, the manufacturer of the scoreboard did not program the device to display a 10, since they thought it was impossible to attain.
bOO4 TIL candles were put on cakes originally by the greeks who would put them on rounded cakes to signify the moon and its glow in honor of Artemis, the Goddess of the moon.
vox8 TIL Physicists were able to cool atomic gas below absolute zero at which point it displayed dark-energy like properties and seemingly defied gravity
ADRvl TIL Anne Frank's diary entered the public domain the same day as Hitler's Mein Kampf. And that a copyright dispute still swirls around the diary.
XEowX TIL that some ants develop as 'undertakers,' carrying dead bodies and waste away from the colony, and exhibit different behavioral patterns than the rest of the colony.