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TIL that Winston Churchill was the 1953 recipient for the Nobel Prize in Literature

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yQa8M Today I learned that I discovered an underrated YouTuber whose video had me cramping from laughter
4w5N TIL Kids are more inclined to turn to their pets than their siblings for support when faced with adversity. This is even though they know their pets don’t actually understand what they are saying.
0XP5 TIL that the auditory and visual hallucinations along with many other symptoms of acute carbon monoxide poisoning are probably the cause of haunted houses and ghost stories.
XdZE TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than “hearing voices”
LkxwP TIL that many of Issac Newton's critical insights on calculus occurred while in isolation from the Great Plague of London from 1665 to 1666. Newton would later describe this time as "the prime of my age for invention and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time since."