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

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Broex TIL of Darrell "Dusty" Crawford - The man with the oldest DNA lineage found in the Americas. He is able to trace his ancestry back over 17,000 years.
OmMg TIL that the words for the Algerian National Anthem were originally written on a prison wall in blood.
J1AXV TIL there's no legit professional wrestling (at least in the US)
VwXp TIL many office thermostats do not adjust the temperature, but people feel the warmth changing because of a placebo. This effect is called ‘the placebo button’.
4kN56 TIL of Nihamanchi, a beer made from cassava and consumed by Indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon region. Its process involves chewing the cassava tubers, spitting them out into large jars and letting it ferment with the saliva. Its taste is described as like a "alcoholic buttermilk".