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TIL annually since 1993, Literary Review magazine has presented the Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author who has written the worst sex scene in a novel. Morrissey won in 2015, and in 2008 John Updike received a lifetime achievement award.

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awMbJ TIL that some people remember their dreams only in black and white.
16oEW TIL when Gelje Sherpa spotted a Malaysian climber struggling in the 'death zone' on Everest, he ended his client's bid to the summit to rescue the climber. So Gelje strapped the climber to his back & carried him down 600 meters taking about 6 hours. Another guide then helped him complete the rescue.
QJg1k TIL that an activist named Bruno Manser went into the jungles of Borneo in the 1980s and became a respected elder in the Penan tribe, then left the tribe and did hunger strikes outside many multinational corporations responsible for stealing their land.
BQ6x TIL that Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell” for reasons completely unknown even to the actor himself.
BoDD TIL that “pig toilets” (combination toilets/feeding troughs) were once common in China and western India.