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TIL In 1979 Sir William Arthur Lewis won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace

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GnJ7 TIL In 1933 Nazis gave 60,000 Zionist Jews $100,000,000 dollars (worth $1.6 billion in 2009) and helped them settle in Palestine.
loVna TIL there are two Chili's in Saudi Arabia
Y7eYP TIL scientists in 2002 reconstructed and synthesized a visual pigment gene present in the last common ancestor of birds and crocodiles (archosaurs).
J1818 TIL the sitcom Maude had unusual style episodes for its time, including several episodes featuring only 2 characters, and one episode where Maude is speaking to an unseen psychiatrist, and is the sole actor in frame the entire episode
RGaa TIL that the first and last British casualties of WWI aren’t just buried in the same cemetery, they’re buried facing each other.