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TIL the 1954 novel "Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding is Stephen King's favorite book

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QNg6p TIL Café Procope, although established in 1686, is not the "oldest café in continuous operation" but it was frequented by Marie Antoinette and Napoleon, among others
5YJan TIL In 1903, the New York Times declared that "flying machines" were essentially a waste of time—only a week before the Wright brothers successfully flew their airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
xAw0 TIL that Henry Kissinger once said that “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”
d8bo9 TIL that Bernie Madoff’s wife was allowed to keep $2.5M of stolen money
j61Nn TIL that after becoming the first Black woman to argue at the U.S. Supreme Court, and winning 9 of 10 landmark civil rights cases, Constance Baker Motley became a U.S. Judicial Court judge and handed down a decision giving women sports reporters equal access to Major League Baseball locker rooms.