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TIL Melinda Liu not only saw this pandemic in 2017, but she, named the very town in China where it would originate.

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JYyg8 TIL actor George C. Scott declined his best actor nomination for "Patton" in 1970, and had the decency to let the Academy know that he would refuse the award if he won. He won anyway, and reportedly called the Oscars a "two-hour meat parade."
79gM TIL an error of Costa Rica’s border on Google Maps led to an invasion of Costa Rica by the army of Nicaragua. Google responded, saying that their Maps “shouldn’t be used as a reference to decide military actions between countries”.
AVan TIL Ultimate sci-fi fan and literary agent Forest J Ackerman kept every story ever submitted to him. He once showed up at a Stephen King book signing with a manuscript King had written when he was 11.
b6pwj TIL that Louis IX(1719-1790) is the most recent ancestor of all the current European monarchs.
O601 TIL A third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent a birthday cake, and a knife for cutting the cake, to school. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, and then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon.