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TIL that the Chief Medical and Science Officer of the American Cancer Society is named Dr. William Cance

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xVAAD TIL Before Bob Dylan's win in 2016, Rabindranath Tagore was the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. He was a wildly talented Indian poet, painter, and musician.
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