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TIL the Quakers won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.

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W7e4A TIL that dyslexia had affected some of the most significant figures in history, including Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, and Stephen Hawking. According to the University of Cambridge researchers, these people are better at solving problems and adjusting to changes
Y7vZr TIL in the US only, the strength of the placebo effect is so high that drug companies have trouble getting new painkillers approved through clinical trials.
neoNG TIL Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes on "Sherlock," is distantly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the character.
ZwZY TIL that the Nobel prize is sometimes called No-Bell prize because Joycelyn Bell Burnell did not share in the 1974 Nobel Prize for the first observation of radio pulsars, despite the fact that she was the one who had actually observed them.
nekZY TIL that small island archipelago St. Pierre & Miquelon is the only French owned territory in North America and is 30 minutes off the coast from Newfoundland, Canada. It was also a key part of alcohol smuggling into the US during the prohibition era.