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TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien was rejected for a Nobel Prize because of ‘poor storytelling’.

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oB6ZW TIL the "Sharona" of the Knacks' "My Sharona" is now a real estate agent. Upon entering her homepage (mysharona.com) the song plays.
Q5lM TIL at 52, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married 18-year-old Mandy Smith but divorced after a year. Bill’s 30-year-old son then Stephen married Mandy’s mother, age 46. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father’s father-in-law and his own grandpa.
yVk8p TIL in the US in the 70s men were 8 percent points higher to get a college degree - 12 percent of young women had a bachelor's degree, compared to 20 percent of men but in 2020, women are 9 percent points higher to get a college degree, it is 41 percent for women but only to 32 percent for men!
Zp9dY TIL of Dr. Farrokhroo Parsa, physician, women's right's activist, and Pahlavi Iran's first female cabinet minister. She was executed for "prostitution" after the Islamic revolution: "I am prepared to receive death with open arms rather than live in shame by being forced to be veiled."
4XZJ5 TIL the US Army played Rock and Heavy Metal music for 10 straight days until the Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega surrendered. He was hiding in an embassy the army couldn't enter, so they played it until he couldn't take any more