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TIL: the legalisation of CB radio in 1981 briefly caused a craze for the devices in the UK: even ranking among the most popular Christmas gifts that year.

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RQva TIL “the Rapture” is not in the Bible at all, it was invented in the 1600s by Cotton Mather. The term in the Bible mistranslated to "rapture” comes from the Greek ἁρπάζω (harpazo) which means “caught up” and refers to ONLY Philip
9klX TIL Samuel L. Jackson is the highest grossing film actor of all time
LkxGQ TIL Paul Newman, while attending a small college in central Ohio, began a laundry service out of his dorm room. Newman’s Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service was a success, earning the young entrepreneur the nickname “The Laundry Man of T-Barracks” in 1949.
1a0wW TIL Sigmund Freud was nominated 12 times for a Medicine Prize and once for a Literature Prize between 1915 and 1938, one year before his death in London. Romain Rolland, the French Nobel novelist, backed Freud's "new analysis of emotional and intellectual life" for a Nobel in literature
WkROA TIL Vikram Seth missed the Penguin deadline for submitting his anticipated sequel novel "A Suitable Girl" in 2017 due to suffering from writer's block as a result of the failure of a relationship. As of 2020 the novel was still unfinished