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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/VegemiteSucks on 2025-05-06 13:57:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Nobel Prize-winning novelist Camilo José Cela was infamous for his scandalous remarks. He once claimed he could absorb liters of water via his anus and offered to demonstrate. He also called the Cervantes Prize, Spain’s top literary award, “covered with shit,” despite accepting it in 1995.