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ADwK4 TIL Yasunari Kawabata was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Although he refused to participate in the militaristic fervor that accompanied World War II, Kawabata suggested that the War was one of the greatest influences on his work
dNxj TIL a proposal and petition on the White House’s website to build a Death Star that earned 30K signatures. It would have cost $850 quadrillion, and take 833,000 years. The White House said, “the Administration does not support blowing up planets”
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N5Xe TIL X-Men has often been compared to the African-American Civil Rights movement, with Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcom X.