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TIL Pierce Brosnan lost both his wife and adopted daughter to ovarian cancer.

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LkAEV TIL in 1981 Dean Koontz wrote a book "The Eyes of Darkness". The chapter 39 it mentions a Chinese military lab outside of the city of Wuhan, where a deadly virus is invented as part of the country's biological weapons warfare programme. Owing to the lab's location, the virus is named 'Wuhan-400'.
6dX7 TIL Tired of hearing “God Bless America” being overplayed on the radio because the lyrics were unrealistic and complacent, Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land”.
pDaO TIL in 2012 a zookeeper licked a monkey’s anus for an hour in order to save the monkey’s life
Qv6a TIL When asked what his IQ was, Stephen Hawking said “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
rn11 TIL a colleague of Steve Jobs said: “He’s a very sensitive guy. That’s one of the things that makes…his rudeness so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people.”