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TIL that it is a federal crime in the United States to ask for political contributions from people known to be receiving relief through an Act of Congress

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b9QvQ Today I learned that Borges, Neruda and Nabokov were the losers of the controversial 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature which was awarded to Soviet novelist Mikhail Sholokov.
GYeRQ TIL of Thomas Cochrane, a Scottish earl, who left the Royal Navy in disgrace, and then joined the Chilean Navy to help it fight for independence.
69JQ TIL that in Irish mythology, there is a story of a god divinely conceiving a child in a newlywed virgin’s belly. The women says “screw that,” aborts the child, then goes and gets pregnant with her husband’s child; the 100% human baby goes on to be a great hero.
XEwRr TIL, a dish made of seaweed called laverbread is a part of the traditional Welsh breakfast.
8alnG TIL that in 1981 Ken Rex McElroy was murdered in broad daylight with 40 witnessess yet the murder was never solved