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TIL Stephen King’s considers his first novel is, “The Long Walk.” It’s about 100 boys in a grueling walking contest where the winner is the last one to survive a never ending walk.

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VBOxQ Today I learned of Herman Perry, a African-American WWII soldier who fled into the jungles of Indian/Burma after killing his CO in 1944. During this time he ended up marrying the chief's daughter of the Naga Tribe that took him in. He was eventually caught and executed in 1945.
bdYZ TIL: There was a big budget pornographic movie ($1.2M) called “Uninhibited” released in 1995 that was deemed good enough to be picked up and released on HBO after being edited to an ‘R’ rating.
Yp90G TIL most UAE residents leave their AC on at home while they go to office. Some would even say to leave it on while gone on summer holiday.
YpY8A TIL about contronyms, single words that have contradictory meanings like dust (to add particles, or to remove particles)
a8M1A TIL Winston Churchill would attend Shakespeare plays and recite the lines along with the actors from the front row. Richard Burton, playing Hamlet at the Old Vic theatre, tried to shake Churchill by changing the speed of his delivery, but Churchill stayed with him the whole way.