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TIL the Quakers won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.

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1ynr TIL that actor Alan Rickman, who portrayed Snape in the Harry Potter films, knew the full story of the character from the very beginning. When he was asked by directors why he delivered lines certain ways he would say that he “knew something they didn’t.”
1avMV TIL As governor of New York, Teddy Roosevelt boxed with sparring partners several times each week, a practice he regularly continued as President until being hit so hard in the face he became blind in his left eye (a fact not made public until many years later).
VMJoZ TIL that if an acronym is said letter by letter, like FBI or ATM, it is called an initialism. To be a true acronym all of the letters must be said as a word, some examples are NATO, NASA and POTUS.
VMg9k TIL of Winthrop Niles Kellogg. He attempted to "humanize" a baby chimpanzee by raising it alongside his infant son. The experiment had to be halted when, instead of humanizing the chimp, the young boy became more chimp-like.
0dRL5 TIL we can't just throw all our garbage into a volcano to burn it up because volcanoes are not hot enough to melt the metals in the trash, and most volcanoes don't actually have a lava lake (only 8 of the thousands on earth)