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TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel did not want one.

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1aN4D TIL roughly 7 billion male chickens are culled each year -- killed only a few days after birth because they are deemed unnecessary for laying eggs
gM7lb TIL that the musical Cats is so popular in Japan, that it has been running since 1983. It caused a “musical boom” and brought other Broadway musicals to Japan. There is a purpose-built CATS theatre in Tokyo. The production has played over 10,000 performances to over 10 million audience members.
mxoJx TIL Edgar Allen Poe died mysteriously after having been missing for six days. Though still alive when he was finally found, he was wearing someone else’s cheap clothes and not coherent enough to tell where he’d been. He had disappeared en route to his own wedding.
woJlJ TIL a Babylonian dream prophecy from 2700 BC, "If he carries beer in the street his heart will be glad."
5YEYp TIL the 1985 film "Better Off Dead" was semi-biographical. The writer-director really did have a girlfriend break up with him to go out with the captain of the ski team. He really was heartbroken and suicidal over it...and the paperboy that wanted his two dollars...yeah... that was a thing too!