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TIL According to a study on Academy Award speeches, Steven Spielberg has been thanked more than God

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M7k98 TIL the first games in the Pokémon series, Red and Blue, contained 150 Pokémon as a reference to Dunbar's number, the number of relationships a single human being can have and properly maintain.
vPj6B TIL about Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague, who began as an urban legend during the Nazi occupation of the Czech capital city and later became a pop-culture antifascist superhero.
b9kQ0 TIL that in 1973 the Irish Republican Army (IRA) hijacked a helicopter, flew to Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, landed in the exercise yard and helped three volunteers escape. It was dubbed 'the escape of the century' and made headlines around the world
NxM6 TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht , Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile “For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.”
17GP TIL Pizza Hut was the first pizza delivery service to offer online ordering… In 1994