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TIL Jean-Paul Sartre won the Nobel Prize in Literature but rejected the award and prize money because he thought it would compromise his independent thinking.

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E10eP TIL before the American Civil War, baseball was played with either the New York Rules (today’s game) or Massachusetts Rules. Mass Rules there were no fouls, defenders had to throw and hit runners with the ball to get them out, runners could use the whole field to dodge the ball, and game was to 100!
vPVer TIL Tonight show Impersonator Rich Little is still alive and performing.
1awBD TIL a Chinese father hired a ‘hitman’ to kill his son’s character in online games so that he would stop playing games and get himself a job.
pYaaA TIL Cormac McCarthy, One of America's greatest writers, wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.
n6AP TIL When 71 potential witnesses to a murder in a Belfast bar all claimed to be in the toilet during the attack, the 4 x 3 foot toilet became known as the TARDIS.