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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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ZpGmY TIL about Father John Huddleston, a priest who helped King Charles II escape England when the King was 21 years old and was also the priest to hear the King's confession and conversion to the Catholic Church on his deathbed
Z9ka TIL After PIRA member Bobby Sands died on hunger strike, the Iranian government renamed the street the UK embassy was located on from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Bobby Sands Street. The embassy moved their entrance just so they wouldn’t have to use Bobby Sands Street on the letterhead.
7rALp TIL that the most commonly used mushrooms (white and brown button, portobello) are all the same mushroom at a different age!
Brkvx TIL: Bōnenkai is a Japanese drinking party that is organized at the end of a year. It literally translates to "forget the year gathering" and is meant to forget the woes and troubles of the past year, and hopefully look to the new year
G8aj TIL that the Aztec Empire was one of the first societies to have mandatory education for all children regardless of gender or rank.