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TIL that former British MP Winston Churchill won a Nobel Price in 1953 - but instead for peace, as he had hoped, he won it for his writing.

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xVyaw TIL about Robert Smalls, a former slave who escaped by stealing a Confederate gunship, The CSS Planter. He did it by giving the correct signals at checkpoints, fooling Confederate onlookers from shore. After gaining his freedom, he became a successful businessman, publisher, & politician.
4JaX TIL More than 60 percent of people in the US who die from guns die by suicide
b66la TIL Alexander Fleming's mold that produced the first antibiotic, penicillin, was kept frozen since 1945 and its genomes are used for regrowing nowadays
AvZn TIL Although Stan Lee gave the Hulk’s alter ego the alliterative name “Bruce Banner”, Lee misremembered it and referred to him as “Bob Banner” in some later stories, an error which readers quickly picked up on. To resolve this discrepancy he decided the official name is “Robert Bruce Banner”.
d19Q TIL the ‘Moon Museum’ is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an inch in size which was left on the surface of the moon during the apollo 12 mission. It contains artworks by the six most prominent artists of the 1960’s, including Andy Warhol, who drew a penis.