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TIL Julian of Norwich was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress

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wVW1 TIL A college student put a fake quote on Wikipedia soon after the death of the famous composer Maurice Jarre, and several journals put the fake quote in their articles about Maurice Jarre’s death. It went unnoticed until he said something about it.
V7VB TIL James Bond villain Yaphet Kotto has expressed that the spy should not be played by a black man, saying “Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. These roles are not written for black men" and “We have pens to create roles that no one else has established.”
p8DRp TIL that Brazil has more law schools than the rest of the entire world
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