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TIL Katharine Hepburn is the only person to win an Oscar for portraying a relative. She was a direct descendant of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who she portrayed in The Lion in Winter and won best actress. Eleanor had been dead for more than 750 years when Hepburn played her.

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Y79Gr TIL in May of 2024 the U.S. Senate authorized more flights to Washington National with an 88-4 vote. At the time senators Kaine & Warner said the Senate ‘abdicated its responsibility to protect the safety of the 25 million people’ who annually fly through Reagan airport, known as DCA
R7WV6 TIL In 1867, a jar was found in a Paris pharmacy with the inscription "Remains found under the stake of Joan of Arc, virgin of Orleans." Carbon14 tests and various spectroscopic analyses were performed, and the results determined that the remains come from an Egyptian mummy from the 6th century BC.
wLYE7 TIL of Charles Carpenter, a US army reconnaissance pilot who got so bored for not seeing enough action he decided to strap bazookas to his plane and would eventually destroy at least six German tanks by war's end.
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oRlkr TIL: That whilst shooting the music video for Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time. "It took a lot of hard work", Gabriel recalled, "I was thinking at the time, if anyone wants to try and copy this video, good luck to them."