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Today I learned about The Lavon Affair. It blew my mind.

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QJaL TIL that during their long literary feud, Norman Mailer once floored Gore Vidal with a punch. Lying there, Vidal joked: “As usual, words fail him.”
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1lD4 TIL there is a water vapor cloud in space which has 100 trillion times the amount of water present on Earth.
XEoLE TIL about the Compaq Concerto. A tablet computer released in 1993, it featured a touch screen, a detachable keyboard, and a version of Windows 3.1 for pen computing.
v1Py8 TIL that the Vjosa river is the last untamed river in Europe