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TIL that the songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel prize in literature for "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

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VB7Gp TIL of the Christmas Bombings of December 18-29, 1972, Where the United States reletlessly bombed Hanoi and Haiphong targeting both military and civilian areas, including schools and hospitals. Thousands of Vietnamese civilians were victims to this campaign.
gkrA TIL coach Paul Bear Bryant was once asked to contribute $10 to help pay for a sportswriter’s funeral. According to legend, he said, “Here’s a twenty, bury two.”
e0ND6 TIL Whanganui River, New Zealand's third largest river is legally a person.
NXw9P TIL that the celebrated Tudor warship Mary Rose - rediscovered in 1982 and now restored as a museum - had a sister ship called Peter Pomegranate whose fate remains unknown
Z8Prp TIL Marilyn Manson claims the Columbine Massacre destroyed his career. He was blamed for one of the worst shootings in US history.