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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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kJYme TIL about Lettice Fisher who worked to reform UK laws such as the "Bastardy Acts" in order to challenge the stigma associated with single parent families, and to provide them with support
Zg4D TIL there’s an online poker bot called “Cepheus” that’s so efficient that it cannot lose at Texas Hold'em in the long run.
P1JRn TIL President Diouf began an anti-AIDS program in Senegal, before the virus was able to take off. He used media and schools to promote safe-sex messages and required prostitutes to be registered. While AIDS was decimating much of Africa, the infection rate for Senegal stayed below 2 percent
rRJE0 TIL more than 20% (one in five) of adults in South Africa have HIV, which is an estimated 7.7 million people.
XZB8 TIL in 1997 William Shatner agreed to become the spokesman for Priceline in exchange for some stock in the young company. This has earned him approximately $600 million as the stock soared.