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TIL Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. His most famous work was a six volume memoir about WW2, but he also wrote a science fiction alternate history story about the US Civil War.

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OGkxg TIL the hippocampus has a kind of internal switch that flips the brain between "learning mode" and "remembering mode".
78E6b TIL: There is a pastry known as Cassatella di sant'Agata, or as translated, Saint Agatha's Breasts. It was named after Agatha who was tortured by having her breasts cut off. They are round shaped sweets made with sponge cake, soaked in rosolio, and filled with cheese, chocolate, and candied fruit.
gM0lL TIL Polar Bears have black skin.
PYNmG TIL that Gore-Tex was discovered as attempt to reduce cable isolation costs
oB4kW TIL about Hell, a village in Norway that has a grocery store, gas station, a fast food shop, and a retirement home. Until late 1995, the European route E6 highway went through Hell and across the Hell bridge, so you were literally able to drive on the Highway to Hell.