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TIL A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was written over a period of three weeks after he was misdiagnosed with brain cancer and given a year to live.He decided to spend that year writing five novels to provide for his wife after his death. Ironically, he outlived her.

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rRG8d TIL that Plessy in the infamous Plessy v Fergusen case was actually a white guy that considered himself as 1/8th black. He had walked into a white only train cart, went up to a conductor and told him this so that he would be arrested and could file suit to try and get the segregation law overturned.
D1vmY TIL that a Russian Defector (GRU officer Stanislav Lunev) has alleged that small nuclear weapons have been secretly pre-positioned in the U.S. to be used for sabotage by Russia′s agents in the event of a nuclear war.
7r6JM TIL about Sandra Perron, the first female infantry officer in the Canadian Army. Viewed as a threat by the male officers, she was beaten, tied to a tree, and left in the snow for two hours without boots. Her experience forced the army to revise its procedures to prevent harassment.
LQ4V TIL Billionaire Libertarian Mark Cuban Pays More Than he is Required in Taxes Because, “It’s the most Patriotic thing you can do.”
VBvLG TIL the most collected person or group on Discogs, a renowned comprehensive music database, is not a performing artist but mastering engineer Bob Ludwig, who has 13 Grammys and nearly 8,000 credits, including work with acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Elton John, Metallica and Daft Punk.