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

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pYRaO TIL Ethiopia, Bhutan, Albania, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, and Costa Rica are the only countries and dependencies to have 100% renewable electricity generation
JYBOV Computer scientist, mathematician, and all-around supergenius Alan Turing, who played a pivotal role in breaking secret German codes during WWII and developing the conceptual framework for the modern general purpose computer, was also a cracking good runner.
rEJ1 TIL American poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson was rejected by both the white and the black society because white people found she was “too black” and black people found she was “too white”.
1X5r TIL George Carlin went off on his Vegas crowd: “People who go to Las Vegas, you’ve got to question their fucking intellect to start with. Traveling…thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic… fucking people with very limited intellects.”
ayrJ TIL that the founder of Jimmy John’s is a big game trophy hunter