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TIL that in 1961 JRR Tolkien was rejected by Nobel Prize committee because The Lord Of The Rings had 'not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality'.

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oBLQA TIL O.J. Simpson was unanimously found guilty in civil court trial in 1997. The jury ruled against Simpson on each of the eight technical questions of liability it was asked to consider, questions that Simpson had avoided to answer at his first trial in criminal court.
kJVDE TIL that Palazzo Senatorio, the city hall of Rome (Italy), has been the the seat of the Municipality of Rome since 1144, making it the oldest town hall in the world
rQPw TIL in 1958, as an experiment, Bank of America mailed 60,000 residents of Fresno, California a small plastic card with a $500 credit line. BoA figured if it failed, there’d be no media coverage because it was in Fresno. The experiment was hugely successful and the program became Visa.
B0kW TIL the “clicking” and “tsking” in African tribe languages was used as hunting tools thousands of years ago, as the clicking was quiet enough to be communicated without alerting the prey.
78Dnx TIL the Stockholm subway system is the world's longest art exhibition, stretching over 110 km with more than 150 different artists.