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TIL James Joyce wrote very... passionate love letters to his wife Nora

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D1X4g TIL in 1968, Joachim Foikis received a $3500 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to dress up in a jester’s outfit and "mock the four pillars of society: money, status, respectability, and conformity". He served as Vancouver's official Town Fool for two years.
5Y5rk TIL that after being married for seven years, a Brazilian couple Adriana, 39, and her husband Leandro, 37, found out that they were actually brother and sister whose mother left them in their infancy.
5VK1p Today I Learned that there was an 870-person-capacity jail boat moored off Riker's Island in NYC which was in use as recently as last year.
xVb1w TIL human beings invented bread before they invented farming
b67Y0 TIL only 8 players have been to 5 consecutive World Cups. Half of them are Mexican.