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Today I Learned that Einstein never received a nobel prize for his work on relativity

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x55w TIL that a German man named Walter Kellner won a writing competition describing an amazing emergency landing in Sardinia based on a true story. An Australian man, also named Walter Kellner, tried to sue him for stealing his own story. Turns out both stories were coincidentally true.
OokaX TIL vintners sold concentrated bricks of wine during prohibition with the explicit warning not to leave the juice from them in a bucket in the cool cupboard for 21 days, or it would turn into wine.
VBbxZ TIL about Towns Beach MO, a town of 2000 that was evacuated and shut down in 1983 due to dioxin contamination
kKE4 TIL: Eugene O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888 in a hotel at Times Square, he also died on November 27, 1953 in another hotel in Boston. His last words were “I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room.”
4k6jw TIL that in 1952, in order to see who would win the main role in a film called “Viva Zapata!”, actors Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn held a “pissing contest” in which the person who’d piss the furthest over the Rio Grande in Mexico would win the role. Marlon Brando was the champion.