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TIL that contemporary britons seem to have forgotten all about "Splendid Isolation"

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VGMQ TIL that American Pharoah’s Great-Great-Great Grandfather is Secretariat
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4X0Xa TIL about the “Great Compression”, a period after WWII where economic inequality decreased and economic prosperity increased in the US.
oBnQE TIL that the scene in The Green Mile where Percy intentionally botches Delacroix’s execution was based on the actual botched execution of Jesse Tafero, which is speculated to have been intentional for retribution against the convicted cop killer.
GZkN TIL that George RR Martin’s A Storm of Swords lost the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. His response? “Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don’t have readers like these.”