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TIL there are no bridges across the Amazon River

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8e14X TIL that, despite being Australia's only Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, the novelist Patrick White remained so unread in his home country that after a chapter of his novel was submitted to a dozen Australian publishers, all of them rejected the manuscript and none recognized it as his writing
nDMP TIL Based on the landmarks in the training scene of Rocky II, Rocky ran 30.61 miles before jumping around with a bunch of kids at the top of the stairs at The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
pnnQ TIL Bruce Willis is half German, and was born in West Germany.
oBWlK TIL in 2012, a U.S. programmer was caught hiring a Chinese programmer to do all his work for 1/5th of his high-paying salary. His workplace later discovered he was spending all day mostly just watching cat videos.
b9Oop TIL that the first vending machine was invented 2000 years ago in Roman Egypt and sold Holy Water. When the coin was deposited, it fell upon a pan attached to a lever which let some water flow out. A counterweight snapped the lever up and turned off the valve once the coin was tilted off the pan.