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TIL that while on death row at San Quintin, Stanley ‘Tookie” Williams was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature for children’s books he wrote while in prison.

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loJe1 TIL Frederick the Great of Prussia was gay, and it led up to point that his father got his lover beheaded and made him watch whole execution. Reasoning was that he was effeminate and not manly, irony is that he became one of greatest generals of all time.
6En1w TIL members of the crow family (crows, Jays, Ravens, etc) can conceive of 'fair' and 'unfair' treatment and can hold grudges against specific humans for years at a time. They also hold funerals for their dead.
QJeYa TIL there are at least 27 methods for counting with fingers around the world. Luca Pacioli even devised a way to count up to 10,000 with both hands.
g76L TIL in the early 1980s, a British MP made serious allegations of paedophilia in the British Political classes and the dossier was “lost” by the Government.
M7Bo7 TIL about the Food Disgust Test, developed by TU Zurich researchers who have discovered that people’s disgust concerning food can be broken into eight distinct scales.