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TIL composer John Williams has been nominated for 49 Academy Awards, a record for any living person.

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bQL7 TIL of Li-Fi, a potential replacement for Wi-Fi that has reached transmission speeds of up to 200 gigabits per second.
loYaa TIL about Typhoid Mary: the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. In her job as a cook she infected 51 people. She was forcibly isolated for 3 years; being released on the promise she didn’t return to cooking. She did return, was caught and confined for the remainder of her life (23 years).
nkRG TIL Beauty and the Beast (1991) became the first animated film to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and remained the only animated film until 2010 when the field was widened to 10 nominations (Up was the 2nd).
ebjk TIL that in 1940 the first British paratroops were trained by stunt men because parachuting was rare and considered a “circus stunt”
9YKX7 TIL that airport officials in Bulgaria seized two million baby eels that had been hidden in luggage. The eels, known as elvers, had been declared food items. It’s a critically endangered species and cannot be exported outside the region.