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TIL Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was the first billionaire to fall off the Forbes billionaire list because of charitable giving: “You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”

by whatilearned February 28, 2023, 4:10 am

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Who is an actor, author, writer, producer whose work you will automatically watch or read?

by QuestionGuy February 27, 2023, 6:33 pm

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TIL The Marvel No-Prize is a empty envelope that Marvel awarded fans for “meritorious service to the cause of Marveldom”. Typically it was won by submitting an explanation for an error in a comic, but rules varied from author to author. The prize was inspired by George R. R. Martin.

by whatilearned February 23, 2023, 1:27 pm

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TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.

by whatilearned February 14, 2023, 4:41 pm

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The Daily Routine of American Author and Journalist Hunter S. Thompson

by CopyPastaArchive February 8, 2023, 6:31 pm

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TIL : TIL a female reporter attempted to recreate the famous novel “Around The World In 80 Days”. Not only did she complete it with eight days to spare, she made a detour to interview Jules Verne, the original author.

by whatilearned February 7, 2023, 6:32 am

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TIL: The author of a best selling book chronicling the atrocities of Imperial Japan, fell into depression and committed suicide just seven years after the book was published

by whatilearned January 30, 2023, 6:01 pm

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TIL: The City of Los Angeles neighborhood Tarzana was named for the Tarzan character created by early 20th century author Edgar Rice Burroughs who lived there and established Tarzana Ranch when he moved from Oak Brook, IL

by whatilearned January 28, 2023, 5:58 am

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TIL that President Theodore Roosevelt was an accomplished author by the time he was 23, writing “The Naval War of 1812”, called a seminal work in the field and highly influential on the development of the modern U.S. navy

by whatilearned January 21, 2023, 2:54 pm

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Who’s your most read author?

by QuestionGuy January 9, 2023, 3:20 pm

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TIL that famed author William S. Burroughs “accidentally” shot his wife in the head in what he claimed was a drunken reenactment of William Tell

by whatilearned January 6, 2023, 12:25 am

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TIL that Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet was based upon Alexander Dumas’ 1844 ‘The Story of a Nutcracker’ (‘Histoire d’un casse-noisette’ which was in turn based upon the original 1816 short story ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’ by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann.

by whatilearned December 12, 2022, 10:37 pm

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