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TIL After reviewing 50 years of literature from 1947 to 1997, Salman Rushdie concluded that Indian writers writing in English is proving to be a stronger and more important body of work than most of what has been produced in the 16 'official languages' of India

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Rd96 TIL as an undergraduate at Harvard, Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his literature professor was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he plagiarized a work by George Orwell and submitted it as his own. The paper was returned by his professor with a grade of “B-”.
oBYDo TIL Peppa Pig, the cartoon character aged 4, is over 7 feet tall.
4XbWJ TIL about Thimmamma Marrimanu the tree with the greatest perimeter length in the world.A distance of 846 m is required to walk around the perimeter of its canopy.
M7BEV TIL a study shows time passes 4 nanoseconds faster per day at the 450m-high Tokyo Skytree observation deck than at ground level. A University of Tokyo professor said clocks "will become tools for measuring time and space, such as differences in altitude, in line with the theory of relativity".
9w5KX TIL about the bunya pine, a coniferous tree from Queensland Australia. Its pinecones can grow up to 35cm and weigh 10kg. Bunya pinecone seeds are edible, the texture and flavor resembling chestnuts and potatoes.