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TIL that the nose in this face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), is the clicking noise in African languages.

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vPKR8 TIL that Jimmie Davis, the Country Music Star who co-wrote the song "You Are My Sunshine", also served as Governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964
woPNE TIL that Times New Roman was commissioned by a British newspaper called The Times.
6EYOW TIL About the Tanuki, a fox-like animal in traditional Japanese folklore with giant magical testicles
gMEZb TIL of Ranald MacDonald, a Chinook/Scotsman from Oregon Country, who went to Japan in 1848 despite its strict isolationist policy. Risking death, he pretended to be shipwrecked & got captured. While imprisoned, the gov't sent 14 samurai to be his pupils, as he became Japan's first English teacher.
LkBLr TIL Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. His most famous work was a six volume memoir about WW2, but he also wrote a science fiction alternate history story about the US Civil War.