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TIL the first Nobel Prize was awarded to Henry Dunant for founding the Red Cross

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6Eb7Q TIL Tovstonogov Great Drama Theatre adapted Anton Chekhov's play - "The Cherry Orchard" in Minecraft
dDV19 TIL About Isabella Islay single malt whiskey. A single bottle costs $6,200,000.
Oorne TIL: Researchers taught African grey parrots to buy food using tokens. They were then paired up, one parrot given ten tokens and the other none. Without any incentive for sharing, parrots with tokens started to give some to their broke partners so that everyone could eat.
Wkr64 TIL: It's against the law for teachers to strike in Texas and can result in a teacher losing their job, teaching certificate and retirement.
RX41 TIL that, in 1987, a construction worker in the U.S. state of Maine became the 5th Earl of Wharncliffe in England upon the death of his father’s second cousin, the 4th Earl.