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A third of Americans believe Covid-19 laboratory conspiracy theory.

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J571 TIL Author Joe Hill was so determined to keep it a secret that he was Stephen King’s son, his own agent didn’t know for 10 years.
GYMpg TIL about the female jockey who pissed off the NAZI Party by beating six acclaimed SS Officers in Czechoslovakia's biggest horse race, shortly before WWII broke out and Germany invaded the country.
kOa1 TIL Doctors have observed that winning an Academy Award increases the life expectancy of actors and actresses.
7PjX TIL That George R.R Martin still writes using a DOS-based word processing application released in 1978. (WordStar 4.0)
xVBv5 TIL that Charging Bull, the famous statue on Wall Street, was installed secretly and illegally outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989 following the 1987 stock market crash. The sculpture was seized and impounded by NYPD, but re-installed two blocks south of the Exchange after a public outcry.