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TIL that Richard Pryor opened the Academy Awards way back in 1977 with a monologue about black performers never getting nominated.

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x0Rg TIL Actor Mickey Rourke attributed his comeback to his dogs and credit them during his Golden Globe acceptance speech in 09: “sometimes when a man’s alone, that’s all you got is your dog, and they’ve meant the world to me.”
l7x97 TIL Most “recycled” plastic ends up in landfills.
R7jMl TIL: The first place to use the Euro as their currency was in Africa. The French island of Reunion adopted the Euro at midnight on 31st December 2001, a few hours ahead of the rest of the Eurozone
PY8DL TIL that Sylvester Stallone had to rent a tux to wear to the 1976 Academy Awards. Rocky won The Oscar for Best Picture that year.
OoL14 TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside the US on official business. He went to Panama to inspect the ongoing construction of the Panama Canal, arriving there on November 14, 1906.